Study Rail Engineering at Newham College

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@thebest1963 2 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant course. I wish this course was available when I was at NEWHAM College in the early 80's. Awesome.

@hitskeboy Жыл бұрын

Be ready for umbrella schemes, no overtime pay, long drives to the work place. Being spoken to like crap an a lot of shovelling

@PlagueSins Жыл бұрын

Can you explain what an umbrella scheme is? I have an idea seeems self explanatory but I’m going into this line of work soon and have no idea what to expect

@stevenwalker3102 Жыл бұрын

@MrAlienfudge it's basically a scam to save the agencies money and liability. They (the agencies) basically pimp you out to say Network Rail. Then you efficiently become an 'Employee' of the Umbrella company. The Umbrella company charges you £20/£30 a week as their admin fees, tax and National insurance. On top of that, you have to pay their employers National insurance (another 12% ofyour pay) and deduct holiday pay also and no tax rebate at the end of the year. I only work cis self employed or direct. So say you're on £1000 a week. Cis would net £800 vs Umbrella about £550/600. As cis I also got £6500 tax rebate last year. So it's one hell of a difference. So there are two industries stealing money off hard working people. The only way I'm guessing it's legal is there are shareholders with political connections. The big con is it drives up employment figures when you are not employed or have any rights. They will sack you as good as look at you with no recourse. I'd sell my arse in Cardiff qDocks before I worked Umbrella. Sorry to rant 😂.

@glizzforman8094 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenwalker3102I was thinking about doing my nvq level 2. Is it worth doing? Not so sure after reading your comment 🤔

@stevenwalker3102 Жыл бұрын

@glizzforman8094 If you have an additional skill or trade, then it's definitely the best thing to do. The money I make compared to what I used to on site as a spark is crazy. But if you are just going in to do P-way, then no, not really. You'll basically be treated like an expendable Labourer who works antisocialshift patterns. On the railsyou are only treated well if they are in need of yours kills. You'd be better off on site or another training route if that's the case. OLEC (overhead lines) is a good field to get into if you can get yourself some funding, as the courses aren't cheap.

@glizzforman8094 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenwalker3102 I don't have any additional skills yet. Is there any other recommendations? I'll look into that aswell.

@16369 25 күн бұрын

People in the comments are forgetting that this is a level 2 course not level 3.

@Bigboss-t8b Ай бұрын

Is a good job to get into to become a train driver

@CR-xr7xp 2 жыл бұрын

Only go to college if you are going to continue your education thereafter, hnc or hnd etc.

@glizzforman8094 Жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@yatesy117 2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff 👍

@123RastaBlasta 2 жыл бұрын

Minimum 50k a year give over I wish haha, you don't need an nvq on the railway it don't mean anything all you need is pts track induction then off you go

@Joshboy354 2 жыл бұрын

Railway Engineers earn around that per year in England

@JustMyOpinion- 2 жыл бұрын

@@Joshboy354 network rail operatives do, not contractors. and you don't need an NVQ to get a job as a contractor on the railway all you need is a PTS I've had guys who don't even know how to shovel working along side me, glad I left and persued a proper career.

@Joshboy354 2 жыл бұрын

@@JustMyOpinion- worst thing you can do on the railway is to work for contractors

@glizzforman8094 Жыл бұрын

@@JustMyOpinion-I was thinking about getting nvq lvl 2. Is that a bad idea?

@glizzforman8094 Жыл бұрын

@@Joshboy354is it worth getting nvq level 2?

@stevenwalker3102 Жыл бұрын

"On Marijuna and things like that" 😂. A bit out of touch, this fella. Trying to catch the 50% (very generous estimate) of flat out coke head's would be more true.