Train driver work/life balance.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Good video. I think to do any job safely and effectively, you need a happy home life to give you stability but on the other hand, sometimes you need a job that you enjoy to give your life meaning, so in turn makes you happier at home which is what I need as my life at the moment is unsettled without direction.

[@bigcasey4143]

I did over 40 years as a train driver and was very glad to retire.... I'd had enough. You're correct about the job not being comfy and cosy... the railway owns you, even when you're off duty.... you have to be careful what you drink due to Company's Drugs and Alcohol policies, as set out by the Transport and Works act and you must always ensure that you have adequate rest before you commence your shift. Saturdays are just another day in the week of a job that runs 24/7. The job is one of huge responsibility, and offers almost unparallelled opportunities of making a complete and utter fool of yourself in the blink of an eye if you have the misfortune to get it wrong. Trains now have On Train Monitoring and Recording (OTMR).... this records everything you do onto a hard drive in real time....time/date, location, use of DRA, throttle settings, brake settings and pressures, speed, direction of travel, exactly where/when the brakes were applied....it even records if you sounded the warning horn... which tone and how many seconds... so there is truly nowhere to hide if you f**k up; f**king up also means you're tested for drugs and alcohol. Downloads of the OTMR are done routinely, and always after an incident... and if you f**k up and don't report it, you're in the sh1t, even if you are not the driver who the download was intended for... The job is hugely different to when I started my career way back in 1978... the only thing better on the modern railway is that the job is now well paid... but if you work on passenger trains on a busy network, as I did.... the work can be very intensive indeed. You are always being chased by Management to account for delays.... The job sure ain't cosy... and it definitely isn't for everyone.... it does help if you're interested in trains though...

[@oddities-whatnot]

Good post that, an eyeopener.

[@angeltransportpjects]

When on earlies on the Great Western Main Line I used to block the daylight out by using binbags taped to the bedroom window. Never saw this video though - it's excellent.

[@dereksmallsuk]

Try black out blinds you cheap bastard

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

Wow taking it back to when One tailway was around, i loved riding on those, especially the class 170 turbostars, loved the interior snd choice of livery😍

[@Tony.B.]

Being a Train Driver in training located in Belgium, I found this rather informative. Thanks for sharing!

[@kinocchio]

Are you driving now? How is it?

[@Tony.B.]

@@kinocchio I certainly (still) am! It's good if you can deal with the ever-changing work hours and days. Wouldn't do anything else tbh. I love the freedom it brings.

[@soup3998]

I mistook this for a meme

[@WCML730]

Same

[@theepicdude6594]

Same

[@freddieparrydrums]

@@gaeltalon3371 ITS A VIRUS

[@kayjoe7237]

“Mate - mate. What the fucks going on ? We’re already 20 mins late.” Reminds me of the Long Island Rail Road.

[@5mnz7fg]

Perhaps the railway companies should employ more drivers... But of course, privatized railway companies are committed to their shareholders and not to custumers and empoyees.

[@5mnz7fg]

@@incognito9292 BR was underfunded.

[@NothingHereButMe]

@@incognito9292 i mean, we’re basically back under nationalisation now so...

[@jimthorne304]

Interesting to watch this and contrast with the training films on KZbin from the old railway companies. What particularly strikes me is the extremely basic nature of the facilities provided for footplate staff in the past compared with today.

[@Ally-ip4yw]

Done my psychometric test today and failed. Gutted. Can’t resit for an other 6 months. As a shunter I want to progress to driver so annoyed.

[@slideryt]

Have you done a resit?

[@ihaveliterallynoname]

I've always wanted to be a train driver. I'm only 14 but I'm going to work so hard to try and get the job!

[@stampysGAMING]

same

[@ShoaibKhan-bz5qm]

same

[@MrTruth111]

Good luck guys!

[@maproductions9945]

Same. I have absolutely loved trains since I was 4 (i'm 14 now), from when a local level crossing caught my eye. Nowadays I love freight trains and want to drive one some day.

[@greko4849]

Same

[@konfolut]

It is so much easier, less dangerous to a driver and to the others and so much better paid than being hgv driver. An avarage week of freight train driver is 35h only while for hgv drivers it can be even 65h for little money. My fiance is a lorry driver and I am shocked how companies do not care how much sleep he gets. It is regular he doesn't get even 6h of sleep between shifts. They don't care when he finishes the shift and when he starts the next one. Sometimes they call him at 9pm to remind him when he starts and then I am picking up to tell him that he is sleeping, because he finished at 8pm and he needs to be up for 2:45. It is really alarming. HGV drivers are ticking bombs. Hundreds of them are so tired they shouldn't be allowed to work. To get 35k a year a regular lorry driver needs to make 60h a week. And my fiance worked already for 4 companies in Midlands. They just absolutely do not care about how freaking dangerous it is for driver and the others on the road. Train is on track and one mistake in a lorry can cause a serious disaster on a motorway. I am PhD in medical sciences and I applied to be a freight train driver, because since a child I have been fascinated with trains and my scientific contract is finishing next year (less paid than I could get as a train driver). My only problem can be dealing with noise on a train. Is is really loud inside? Shift working is not a problem. I have done it many times, but noise can be disturbing for me.

[@rosen9425]

Your comment is 9 months old but I'll reply anyway EU rules state that you can't have less than 9 hours of rest no more than three times a week. Every other daily rest must be 11 hours. 8pm-2:45 am is as illegal as it gets. Those employers should be in massive legal trouble for breaking the law.

[@unknownvision7373]

Passenger train drivers get about 40K to 90K a year bro

[@oddities-whatnot]

Finished at 8pm and up at 2:45am ? I walked out of a firm years ago because of crap like that. They broke every rule under the sun and tried to get drivers to do the same because they were desperate to get deliveries done. Years ago hauliers put pressure on you because some people need the job and afraid of being laid off if they don’t do as they are told.

[@Neallaee]

@@unknownvision7373 I know this is 4 years ago, but im still commenting... HGV drivers only get 25 - 30k a year...

[@maorigirl5374]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video thank you

[@thomasfawcett9447]

I subscribed, because you have some assume videos. Thanks for letting me experience your type of work, and I will keep watching your new ones in the future. Tom?

[@ScrotusXL]

I'm not a train driver and I found it very informative 👍😁

[@willcoldridge8080]

ScrotusXL I am watching this because train driving is my dream job so this is very useful

[@lukecarter9160]

ScrotusXL to

[@zinogre_the_lord]

The iron Gamer same

[@brianburns7211]

That’s because this is fake. The railway really doesn’t care one bit about the crews. They talk a good game, but their minds and attitude are still in the 19th. Century.

[@AstonL3]

My dream job is a train driver too! But with the sleep situation i think im going to re consider

[@TheArkamedBat]

22:07 Japanese be like: better be on time and less prepared (if you're 3 sec late, you're fked by your boss).

[@thomas1996nintendo]

There's a lot more to being a Train Driver than people believe.

[@geezerp1982]

its a peice of piss ! end of

[@nstheboss]

@@geezerp1982 piece of piss 😂

[@whatdoyoumeanbro4964]

@@geezerp1982 peice of piss bruh

[@whatdoyoumeanbro4964]

@@geezerp1982 spell you 5 year old probably wants to be a bus driver

[@geezerp1982]

@@whatdoyoumeanbro4964 piss off ! hows that ?

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

A good and important watch

[@topopops]

This is sheer brilliance

[@prof.anandwaghmare4427]

Unbelivable experience of rail engineering and रेल driving

[@MasterLapin]

angry guy is a great actor

[@billyfish8329]

Its called non technical skills, and it's about what revolves around the job, not the actual task of driving itself, which is a technical skill. All railway shift workers face these issues not just drivers and the industry has finally begun to address this.

[@lindawatton6361]

I love the trains and keep people save thank

[@cardiffcentral2133]

Yeah I would still drive train for transport for wales

[@SvenSvenson1]

Every driver is a professional, it's a job that not just anyone can do ..... It takes skill , how do they balance big trains on skinny rails while steering around corners ? ?

[@AnubhabKundu]

Wheels are designed to be conical and have flanges. The train is a type of connected multi axle vehicle and dont have balance problems unlike motorcycles.

[@AnubhabKundu]

@@SvenSvenson1 it is not this way with modern EMU amd DEMU trains though.

[@goncalotome1791]

I believe it's not so much because of the difficulty of driving itself, but because of having the ability to stay focused for 3 hours without doing practically anything, especially on long journeys, without losing focus! Just looking at the line and a horizon!

[@rapman5363]

4:10 nice Rastafarian bust....Bob Marley would be proud!!

[@davidb4192]

If everyone watched this video, there would be a lot less car accidents too.....

[@aldo4319]

I don't suppose any of these videos mention being nights on Saturday, sleeping all day Sunday, then going to bed early Sunday evening for an early start on Monday and not being able to get to sleep, Used to get that quite regularly at Brighton

[@insanelewis21]

Yep the lifestyle sucks big time. I'm sure the shifts don't need to be what they are at all. Hi from Selhurst

[@jordanweir7187]

this makes it sound like a pretty brutal job o.o

[@Cr4z3d]

it kind of is tho

[@icklebean0365]

It said don't be disturbed by phones and my phone rang😂

[@deltic_rblx-robloxtranspor306]

Train Driver = cool Pilot = where do I sign up Fighter Pilot = *TAKE ME DO THE JOB*

[@MrNicklasson87]

And if you’re forced to drive a class 66 on notch 8 for any longer period of time with a heavy load you will need to learn sign language at the end of the shift, if you’re able to get out at all. If you don’t work part time as a professional gymnast or yoga Instructor this is not guaranteed... 🤣 Once you’re in your seat and the volume is ok it’s an awesome loco though. Much better than an TMZ for instance.

[@xXRealXx]

So trains are late so often because of safety? Good to know, now I won't be piss of that much next time.

[@jackssstaylor7438]

Am 13 but am going to work hard at school to become a train driver Cos I love trains so much and it’s my dream to be come a train driver it’s my Job for life

[@transportflick923]

Jacks train videos Epic great. Consider getting into university as a backup plan. They expect drivers to have perfect health. In case anything happens to you you can still find employment elsewhere.

[@jackssstaylor7438]

My dads a train conductor and I wanna work on the railway as well but I wanna be a driver

[@thefufferfish]

@@jackssstaylor7438 hows it going lol

[@ystoyanov3669]

It is a two men job.. You build new modern trains for single driver like bus driver.. It is wrong!.. To be focus and aware all the time with all distractions you've mentioned accurate they have to be two.. They have to repeat out loud the signals (you suggest to speak out loud the signals alone but it is not allways helping).. If one loose focus and miss a signal the other one see it and say it out loud and they have to repeat it.. Even if he was lost it for a second he hear his colegue, repeat it loud and go on.. The chance to miss signal is almost none. If one is sleepy they swap. One goes to pee, other one is on!.. A human mind can easly loose it like surfing on internet just thinking. We are not robots. It is a two man job! Stop saving job places and build you trains and locomotives for two men..

[@TheArkamedBat]

For Driver and GD, not DOO (Driver Only Operation).

[@TheArkamedBat]

What the fuck's going on? It's been like 20 minutes already. This is LIRR in a nutshell.

[@manaviation]

Clicked on this thinking this was a meme 🙃

[@Declaringthendfromthebeginning]

I want to drive trains!!!

[@pilvion]

Too bad I’m colourblind and can’t pursue one of my dream jobs :c

[@thetruecrazysyrupguy]

I mean their are simulators mate but I feel yea

[@brianburns7211]

Now the railways are starting to talk more about automation. For me it doesn’t matter because I’m getting close to pension. For someone new, it could mean being made redundant. Stay in school.

[@gilliancockroft562]

Ivor love for trains🤩

[@stwtranvids2078]

23:20 But it's a habit for the Japanese in terms of safety, so why should it be?

[@khasria6649]

I wana be great western mainline driver

[@rockystrains8891]

Khasria 664 So FGW (First Great Western or Great Western Railway) You will drive the 801!

[@RWL2012]

@@rockystrains8891 Great Western doesn't have any 801s.

[@TheArkamedBat]

Really? IETs?

[@TheArkamedBat]

I want to drive on Southeastern on London Victoria to Ashford Intl services with 375s or 377s

[@sawyersharbino5987]

Bro I already drive trains

[@TRtraybloxeey]

Ok, so where can I apply? Oh, it’s British, I’m Aussie....

[@lukastrains793]

What year is this from

[@oliver.42]

Mid 2000s i would say.

[@Ned-nw6ge]

Yeah, why?

[@kbryce14]

Yes I want to drive trains.............

[@Imperia_Classicus]

my grandad was in the train company so i guees that will help mwe on my C.V

[@TraceUK]

SidTheSaint No it won’t...? Not at all

[@BossySwan]

I like trains

[@ТЕ2-312]

The best job.

[@normanschlongdongovic4124]

It’s same as bus drivers

[@Synthematix]

Driving a train is cool, but being the passenger is better.

[@mrsociable1288]

4.38, your NTE5 is upside down. Many thanks

[@whangie1]

Used to be a train driver in England but eventually got my jotters as I had a few SPAD's and other things on my file I always got grassed up. When I stared in the good old days of the 80s you didn't get grassed on. The railways are fucked now. Also got grassed on for coming into a station with my feet up. SAD!

[@stampysGAMING]

Well keep your feet down? Not that hard mate.

[@centreforehead8002]

Y Yute A bit unprofessional riding into a station with your feet up on the dash lol 😂

[@ChangesOneTim]

People coming into the profession now live with voicecomms recording, OTMR, CCTV, TPWS, D&A policy, you name it... from Day One. Compliance is everything now and it is what it is. I well remember a 'feet up' photo of HST arriving at Bristol Parkway which reached the newspapers.

[@michaeloconnor7849]

You got the sack because you were crap at your job, blame other people if that makes you feel better but let's face it, you were crap at your job (that's unless you just spent your time stood on a platform fantasising and the closest you got to a train was a Hornby 00)

[@mak47HDTrains]

Where did you take this from?

[@grantmidd]

it's put me off the idea lol

[@greko4849]

To be a train driver what kind of grades do u need at school?

[@HDTransport]

27:20 I’ve said that a lot at school lol

[@max-_-6352]

We need more train drivers in Queensland Australia we got a shortage

[@Engineer9736]

Max -_- You decided that?

[@ihabphelobos7455]

Night shift is too much ,why they keep working just daytime .

[@stockportcountyfc7272]

My dad drives trains

[@surejonathon6689]

I wanna drive a steam train when I grow up😁

[@gamercoolcraft4208]

King Burger I don’t think steam trains will come to the future but trains in the future will have less buttons to press tho

[@ТЕ2-312]

@@surejonathon6689 I was the driver steam locomotive 25 years ago.

[@matthewlovelock6928]

1.19 the driver was quite dishy

[@conorfleming6580]

Dishy?

[@TheArkamedBat]

23:07 Just point and talk loudly about everything.

[@syntaxsandbox2278]

It's all great in theory, but that's not how life actually works.

[@wojciechmazurek8015]

I wonder if it's hard to become train driver when you're foreigner.. I'm talking about UK of course

[@vkotis]

As long as you can speak english fluently, then anyone can do it. You just need to pass the OPC assessments. I'm training as a train driver for Crossrail at the moment and there are plenty of foreign people on the course...myself being one.

[@z00h]

vkotis, what's the pay like at CR?

[@mariosavva999]

£52000

[@MrTruth111]

Today there are more foreigners in Britain than native Brits, so I see no problem.

[@Miimii01]

Hi Vincent, was wondering if there were many women train drivers?

[@MrPatt1983]

The tie with a short sleeve shirt looks terrible.

[@pauljordan4452]

Nothing wrong with it.

[@Gamerboy-gy1rl]

I want to work for CSX

[@thomaspearsall5064]

Yessss

[@MegaShanes1]

Are you allowed to drink and drive.

[@jeromejackson5028]

No

[@ScrotusXL]

And it's got Marek Larwood in it😅

[@brianburns7211]

Alcohol doesn’t help you sleep? Where did they get that from?

[@pauljordan4452]

You can't sleep when your liver is processing alcohol. I have been there.

[@tcc300892]

Alcohol disrupts the REM phase of sleep. You might find it helps you fall asleep but the quality of sleep you're getting will be reduced.

[@jackietheman9928]

Diesel train is more of a work cuz that's what I want to drive

[@eoinpkav152]

Buzz.K.C. Its easier

[@eoinpkav152]

And its a locomotive

[@jackietheman9928]

MetroNorth RR fan I know it's called a Locomotive :| and know it's not easy, it's more dangerous and more powerful than electric trains.

[@eoinpkav152]

Buzz.K.C. Where i am it's easier to control an emd gp-35m I don't know where you live but in the us it's easier Just to move and stop. Just the simple stuff.

[@jackietheman9928]

MetroNorth RR fan okay sorry, I live in Aus but like I mean it's not easy when you start but when you do it for a while its easy but I drive Loco's on trains simulator .

[@lorrainepotasnick2973]

This a video fit the moleman978

[@Rog5446]

Drivers are professionals, No, they're drivers.

[@skorakora]

in short anserwer ? Yes :D

[@proteusduxbury]

i play train simulater 2020

[@TheArkamedBat]

TSW2

[@bubblessmartiez197]

so yeah disconnect your phone and Mobile so if there's a fire burglary or medical issue you can't call for help! well done

[@rosandpl]

you know, you can put your phone on silence

[@bubblessmartiez197]

***** I know. My point was if you switch it off and you're having a heart attack....It's not much use

[@TheChicagoL]

You have a good point there.

[@TheTrainMan-wj4fr]

There is a cab phone always

[@bulwinkle]

TheTrainMan 4000 not seen as good practice to sleep in the cab.

[@BrucexfromxCanada]

When I hear someone express their sufferings like this, it makes ME cry,even though I am in Canada. First, though, his english made me think: "what aprt of englaibnd is he in?" Then I realized this was a Scottish brogue,m but different from other Scots I have heard. One of my unlces came from Prestwick, but he was highly eduacted, an actuary in an important executive position. His Englsih hardly sounded Scot/brogue at all. another man I once worked for was not highly educated. His brogue was much thicker. this kind of parlance, both British and Scot, I notice often cuts the last syllable of many words. From a grammatical point this makes it much harder for a Canadain (never mind an American) to understand. However I also see a sort of "sliding scale". The more the formal education, the less the "thickness" of the brogue. Something similar often pervades American English also. (Note I am Canadian but have had a lot of exposure to people of many origins. I never had the chance to travel the world, but the world simply came to me!) Since the sophisticated stuff a highly educated person would have, the less educated person, does not, but the latter will show more because of exactly that in his/her parlance. Yours was a nice example, and it is partly why this struck me so emotionally today in a way and intensity I could never have even remotely imagined when I was young! When I was young I had a serious personality problem, so emotional upheaval is no stranger! I was so over-pragmatically balanced and interpersonally naive it even interfered with my ability to do humanity sujects in high school. Nobody understood, and caring was far from truly adequate. I also suffered about 8 years of intensive peer violence. (Bullying was not regulated in the 50s as it is today.) With no other adequate alternative, when, at the age of 16 one day thanks to ateacher rom half way around the world, and only a short verbal intervention to all the class, for the first time in my life I realized I had "some serious personality problem". I did not know what it was, but I DID know what I didn't know, andI estimated that it had to be fought unconditionally, and that likely I would be fighting it for the rest of my life, or close to. Enigmatically, at age close to 72, in retrospect, I was remarkably accurate for the very little I knew of it at the time! the problem of a dominating mother,(and how that originated from a sexist problem before I was even born), is only one of several roots to the story. there are at least two more, one of which was high intelligence (which is a complex mix of bane and boon understood by so few who do not have it.) I have had a career as an electronic technician, and sometimes am thought of as "the engineer without the degree". although stunted, even what I had, when seen in the true perspective of what could have been runs far,far better than anyone anyone I and others have known to do with that exceptional and serious a problem. that also includes several mental health professionals. Today, I tell the story to younger generations, often publicly. But I also tell very explicitly WHY I am doing so: "I am not going to live forever, so what I have fought tooth and nail for most of a lifetng to force out,in the roughest way from those who sought to withhold and opportunize, I pass on, as I do not want that learning to die with me! I pass it on, much in the sense of theOlympic torch to you the younger generations who will be faced with the challenges,m that such a suffering may never repeat after my time! In me tercero lingua: ¡ Haber compasión es la hija de had sida sofrie ! Nobody would need to understand one word of Spanish (my third language) to realize that there's more than the words! "To have compassion is the daughter of having suffered! I, too had to open up on the subject, but not realizing the problems of others' opportunism, that proved as much a bane as a boom. Also, in Canada, English is lacking a lot. I had two parents who, in spite of all the problems, were both university graduates and upper middle class when I was growing up. so my english came from family, resltivesand school of similar eduaction. At the age of 11, my father was transferred into Montreal, and I soon found the importance of being bilingual at a time when this was far rarer than today. the srtar was hilariously finny, but the progress was strong. today, speaking English, French and Spanish enough to carry a conversation, and snippets of more, in a city where you would find 80 languages in a day, I never looked back, save to learn from the past. the cognitive processes I used, I doubt many, even professionals have heard of used that way. "So keep on trainen' keep on learning!"

[@jameswhite1913]

R. E. Bruce Martin we do not need a bloody story

[@angelmonroy3012]

James Whitehouse wth was that

[@jameswhite1913]

Angel Monroy idk

[@angelmonroy3012]

James Whitehouse hahaha

[@PMTLynch]

Were you bullied because you kept going on and on and on and on...

[@taffytop]

The early starts put me off

[@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy]

Fun Fact: Women are almost always hired as a train cleaner (washing and scrubbing engine surfaces) before getting hired as an engineer / driver. Since females have smaller brain capacity / function, railways ensure they can handle basic chores before allowing for bigger responsibilities. The US has gender equality laws, and are no longer allowed to use this tried and true method to sift through women who are too moody or otherwise incapable of the complex tasks.

[@margotrasch5684]

You're absolutely right, I agree in every point with you, greetings from a german female train driver ;)

[@margotrasch5684]

@@mae_doll So true xDD

[@markfrench8892]

You don't drive a locomotive, you operate or run it! Get it right.

[@oliver.42]

Erm, yes you do?😂Stop acting like you know things

[@keving126]

You don't drive trains you operate them U.S.A

[@anthonystrains1672]

Im not from the UK but ok👍🏼

[@jordan4541]

Bus and coach drivers i would say are more professional. A lot more skills needed

[@mnumzanemchunu]

Foul mouth on such a great informational clip🤦🏿‍♂️ A little blip would’ve helped, had to stop watching with my children. Vocabulary is important 🤔

[@ayylmao9078]

Damn I want to crash trains tho

[@richardseth0399]

bad

[@TheArkamedBat]

WTF????? Even I play TSW 2 just like IRL.I follow procedures and all other stuff.I even change manual junctions by stepping down the train and operating them at ground level,I follow signals perfectly,I know what does mean (Double flashing yellow-Preliminary Junction Caution/Single flashing yellow-Junction caution)

[@EM-yk1dw]

Train driving is not professional.

[@EricDalton1910]

Maybe not. But us drivers are on a professional wage.

[@EM-yk1dw]

Very true. It is the person who makes the job professional.

[@unknownvision7373]

It is because they have thousands of lives on there hands

[@ChangesOneTim]

Really? Because there aren't degree courses in train driving? Because there isn't a Chartered Institute Of Train Drivers? No gentlemen's club in London's west end or a freemason's lodge for train drivers? Gadzooks! How frightfully snobby of you.