I am responsible primarily for being a train driver trainer and I am also finished with my first course who are all doing fantastically well and filling in the gaps of my weeks by training staff in Personal Track Safety and operating our simulator for assessing new and experienced staff.
We have just changed offices in the Midlands and this has left us busy while we pack everything and move it but that completed for the most part today - so that leaves me with a week to prepare for my last fortnight with my first group.
As it's been a while since I last post I thought I'd upload some pictures of my new company and my adventures out and about!
Birmingham New Street - used to work from here as a guard now I see it from my office window!
Snow reaches Birmingham
Shrewsbury with its mix of colour lights and semaphores
Diagrams in Severn Bridge Junction signal box
Shrewsbury looking from the signal box
A train passes Severn Bridge Junction box
More pictures from Severn Bridge Junction box
The simulator at The Academy - we have a 350 and 172
Picture of our new livery. Not sure I like the missing yellow end but I'll get used to it!!
So - that's it for now! Stay tuned, look forward to giving more information and insights as I do more and more and if you are given a job at West Midlands Trains as a driver in the near future it could well be me that trains you.
