After driving a class 450 today up and down 49 road at Clapham Yard at 5mph, tomorrow is another big day...
I will be taking an empty train onto the mainline for the first time and travelling at normal linespeeds and also observing signals. Definitely brown trousers time.
If all goes as planned, I will be driving my first train (which should be a class 450) out of Clapham Yard just towards the end of the morning peak and then go up to Waterloo. Then change ends and make my way towards Woking on the slow lines.
That will be it for tomorrow but that's plenty to be getting on with. After that day, the following one will see me driving not only mainline, but with passengers!!
It's also goodbye today for 7 of my colleagues as for this part of the training we split up into groups of 4 and won't see the other trainees until we go back to the training school (for a human factors brief) on 23rd April! Hopefully, there will be some good stories to tell and hear by then!
Wish me luck!!
Please note this site is to enable people aspiring to be drivers and to give them an idea of what the training is involved. It is not endorsed by South West Trains and all views are my own and not the companies...
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