Train driver work/life balance.

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  • Опубліковано 15 жов 2024

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  • @bigcasey4143
    @bigcasey4143 3 роки тому +8

    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...

  • @angeltransportpjects
    @angeltransportpjects 8 років тому +17

    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
      @dereksmallsuk 4 роки тому +2

      Try black out blinds you cheap bastard

  • @capnskiddies
    @capnskiddies 7 років тому +66

    The irony. Can't sleep for an early railway shift and I'm watching this.

    • @djhaides
      @djhaides 5 років тому +5

      New driver at the time?

  • @5mnz7fg
    @5mnz7fg 7 років тому +19

    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
      @5mnz7fg 3 роки тому +1

      @@incognito9292 BR was underfunded.

    • @NothingHereButMe
      @NothingHereButMe 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @soup3998
    @soup3998 7 років тому +121

    I mistook this for a meme

  • @oddities-whatnot
    @oddities-whatnot 2 роки тому +6

    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.

  • @ace-paidinfull5240
    @ace-paidinfull5240 3 роки тому +4

    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😍

  • @ihaveliterallynoname
    @ihaveliterallynoname 7 років тому +54

    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
      @stampysGAMING 6 років тому +7

      same

    • @ShoaibKhan-bz5qm
      @ShoaibKhan-bz5qm 6 років тому +6

      same

    • @MrTruth111
      @MrTruth111 6 років тому +8

      Good luck guys!

    • @maproductions9945
      @maproductions9945 6 років тому +5

      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
      @greko4849 6 років тому +3

      Same

  • @kayjoe7237
    @kayjoe7237 6 років тому +6

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

  • @Tony.B.
    @Tony.B. 4 роки тому +5

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

    • @kinocchio
      @kinocchio 2 роки тому +2

      Are you driving now? How is it?

    • @Tony.B.
      @Tony.B. 2 роки тому +1

      @@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.

  • @konfolut
    @konfolut 6 років тому +18

    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
      @rosen9425 5 років тому +2

      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
      @unknownvision7373 4 роки тому

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

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @billyfish8329
    @billyfish8329 7 років тому +8

    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.

  • @TheArkamedBat
    @TheArkamedBat 2 роки тому +4

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

  • @ScrotusXL
    @ScrotusXL 8 років тому +43

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

    • @willcoldridge8080
      @willcoldridge8080 6 років тому +4

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

    • @lukecarter9160
      @lukecarter9160 6 років тому +1

      ScrotusXL to

    • @zinogre_the_lord
      @zinogre_the_lord 6 років тому +1

      The iron Gamer same

    • @brianburns7211
      @brianburns7211 5 років тому +2

      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
      @AstonL3 2 роки тому

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

  • @jimthorne304
    @jimthorne304 4 роки тому +3

    Interesting to watch this and contrast with the training films on UA-cam 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.

  • @thomas1996nintendo
    @thomas1996nintendo 6 років тому +13

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

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 6 років тому +3

      its a peice of piss ! end of

    • @nstheboss
      @nstheboss 5 років тому +1

      @@geezerp1982 piece of piss 😂

    • @whatdoyoumeanbro4964
      @whatdoyoumeanbro4964 4 роки тому

      @@geezerp1982 peice of piss bruh

    • @whatdoyoumeanbro4964
      @whatdoyoumeanbro4964 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 4 роки тому

      @@whatdoyoumeanbro4964 piss off ! hows that ?

  • @Ally-ip4yw
    @Ally-ip4yw 4 роки тому +5

    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
      @slideryt 2 роки тому +2

      Have you done a resit?

  • @MasterLapin
    @MasterLapin 5 років тому +3

    angry guy is a great actor

  • @davidb4192
    @davidb4192 4 роки тому +5

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

  • @prof.anandwaghmare4427
    @prof.anandwaghmare4427 6 років тому +3

    Unbelivable experience of rail engineering and रेल driving

  • @topopops
    @topopops 5 років тому +2

    This is sheer brilliance

  • @ace-paidinfull5240
    @ace-paidinfull5240 3 роки тому +2

    A good and important watch

  • @MrNicklasson87
    @MrNicklasson87 4 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @maorigirl5374
    @maorigirl5374 3 місяці тому

    Thoroughly enjoyed this video thank you

  • @SvenSvenson1
    @SvenSvenson1 5 років тому +6

    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
      @AnubhabKundu 2 роки тому +1

      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
      @AnubhabKundu 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @goncalotome1791
      @goncalotome1791 Місяць тому

      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!

  • @thomasfawcett9447
    @thomasfawcett9447 7 років тому +2

    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?

  • @jordanweir7187
    @jordanweir7187 6 років тому +6

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

    • @Cr4z3d
      @Cr4z3d 5 років тому +6

      it kind of is tho

  • @rapman5363
    @rapman5363 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @cardiffcentral2133
    @cardiffcentral2133 4 роки тому +2

    Yeah I would still drive train for transport for wales

  • @xXRealXx
    @xXRealXx 6 років тому +7

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

  • @icklebean0365
    @icklebean0365 7 років тому +7

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

  • @jackssstaylor7438
    @jackssstaylor7438 5 років тому +2

    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
      @transportflick923 5 років тому +1

      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
      @jackssstaylor7438 5 років тому +1

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

  • @lindawatton6361
    @lindawatton6361 8 років тому +2

    I love the trains and keep people save thank

  • @aldo4319
    @aldo4319 7 років тому +4

    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
      @insanelewis21 5 років тому +2

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

  • @TheArkamedBat
    @TheArkamedBat 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @ystoyanov3669
    @ystoyanov3669 4 роки тому +4

    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
      @TheArkamedBat 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @deltic_rblx-robloxtranspor306
    @deltic_rblx-robloxtranspor306 6 років тому +2

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

  • @pilvion
    @pilvion 4 роки тому +11

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

    • @thecrazysyrupguyhd2902
      @thecrazysyrupguyhd2902 3 роки тому +3

      I mean their are simulators mate but I feel yea

    • @brianburns7211
      @brianburns7211 3 роки тому +1

      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.

  • @stwtranvids2078
    @stwtranvids2078 4 роки тому +3

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

  • @Declaringthendfromthebeginning
    @Declaringthendfromthebeginning 4 роки тому +2

    I want to drive trains!!!

  • @manaviation
    @manaviation 3 роки тому +2

    Clicked on this thinking this was a meme 🙃

  • @Synthematix
    @Synthematix 4 роки тому +2

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

  • @gilliancockroft562
    @gilliancockroft562 5 років тому +2

    Ivor love for trains🤩

  • @TRtraybloxeey
    @TRtraybloxeey 5 років тому +1

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

  • @greko4849
    @greko4849 6 років тому +3

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

  • @whangie1
    @whangie1 7 років тому +4

    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
      @stampysGAMING 6 років тому +2

      Well keep your feet down? Not that hard mate.

    • @centreforehead8002
      @centreforehead8002 6 років тому +1

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

    • @ChangesOneTim
      @ChangesOneTim 11 місяців тому

      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
      @michaeloconnor7849 6 місяців тому +1

      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)

  • @syntaxsandbox2278
    @syntaxsandbox2278 5 років тому +7

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

  • @kbryce14
    @kbryce14 7 років тому +2

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

  • @sawyersharbino5987
    @sawyersharbino5987 4 роки тому +3

    Bro I already drive trains

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 5 років тому +1

    I like trains

  • @Ernest-From-England
    @Ernest-From-England 6 років тому +1

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

    • @TraceUK
      @TraceUK 6 років тому +4

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

  • @khasria6649
    @khasria6649 7 років тому +10

    I wana be great western mainline driver

    • @rockystrains8891
      @rockystrains8891 7 років тому +1

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

    • @RWL2012
      @RWL2012 5 років тому +1

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

    • @TheArkamedBat
      @TheArkamedBat 3 роки тому +1

      Really? IETs?

    • @TheArkamedBat
      @TheArkamedBat 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @ТЕ2-312
    @ТЕ2-312 5 років тому +1

    The best job.

  • @HDTransport
    @HDTransport 6 років тому +4

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

  • @max-_-6352
    @max-_-6352 7 років тому +3

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

  • @lukastrains793
    @lukastrains793 3 роки тому +2

    What year is this from

    • @oliver.42
      @oliver.42 11 місяців тому

      Mid 2000s i would say.

  • @ihabphelobos7455
    @ihabphelobos7455 3 роки тому

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

  • @mak47HDTrains
    @mak47HDTrains 9 років тому +2

    Where did you take this from?

  • @normanschlongdongovic4124
    @normanschlongdongovic4124 4 роки тому +2

    It’s same as bus drivers

  • @grantmidd
    @grantmidd 7 років тому +10

    it's put me off the idea lol

  • @mrsociable1288
    @mrsociable1288 6 років тому +1

    4.38, your NTE5 is upside down. Many thanks

  • @Ned-nw6ge
    @Ned-nw6ge 7 років тому +1

    Yeah, why?

  • @MrPatt1983
    @MrPatt1983 7 років тому +3

    The tie with a short sleeve shirt looks terrible.

  • @matthewlovelock6928
    @matthewlovelock6928 3 роки тому +3

    1.19 the driver was quite dishy

  • @brianburns7211
    @brianburns7211 5 років тому +1

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

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @tcc300892
      @tcc300892 3 роки тому +2

      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.

  • @wojciechmazurek8015
    @wojciechmazurek8015 7 років тому +2

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

    • @vkotis
      @vkotis 7 років тому +6

      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
      @z00h 7 років тому +1

      vkotis, what's the pay like at CR?

    • @mariosavva999
      @mariosavva999 7 років тому +2

      £52000

    • @MrTruth111
      @MrTruth111 6 років тому +2

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

    • @Miimii01
      @Miimii01 5 років тому +1

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

  • @jackcapewell4373
    @jackcapewell4373 7 років тому +5

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

    • @eoinpkav152
      @eoinpkav152 7 років тому +1

      Buzz.K.C. Its easier

    • @eoinpkav152
      @eoinpkav152 7 років тому +1

      And its a locomotive

    • @jackcapewell4373
      @jackcapewell4373 7 років тому +1

      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
      @eoinpkav152 7 років тому +1

      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.

    • @jackcapewell4373
      @jackcapewell4373 7 років тому +1

      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 .

  • @TheArkamedBat
    @TheArkamedBat Рік тому +1

    23:07 Just point and talk loudly about everything.

  • @ScrotusXL
    @ScrotusXL 8 років тому +3

    And it's got Marek Larwood in it😅

  • @stockportcountyfc7272
    @stockportcountyfc7272 7 років тому +4

    My dad drives trains

    • @surejonathon6689
      @surejonathon6689 6 років тому +1

      I wanna drive a steam train when I grow up😁

    • @gamercoolcraft4208
      @gamercoolcraft4208 5 років тому +1

      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
      @ТЕ2-312 5 років тому +2

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

  • @thomaspearsall5064
    @thomaspearsall5064 5 років тому +2

    Yessss

  • @Gamerboy-gy1rl
    @Gamerboy-gy1rl 6 років тому +2

    I want to work for CSX

  • @markfrench8892
    @markfrench8892 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @oliver.42
      @oliver.42 11 місяців тому +1

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

  • @bubblessmartiez197
    @bubblessmartiez197 8 років тому +13

    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
      @rosandpl 8 років тому +5

      you know, you can put your phone on silence

    • @bubblessmartiez197
      @bubblessmartiez197 8 років тому +3

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

    • @TheChicagoL
      @TheChicagoL 7 років тому +2

      You have a good point there.

    • @TheTrainMan-wj4fr
      @TheTrainMan-wj4fr 7 років тому +5

      There is a cab phone always

    • @bulwinkle
      @bulwinkle 7 років тому +2

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

  • @skorakora
    @skorakora 7 років тому +1

    in short anserwer ?
    Yes :D

  • @Rog5446
    @Rog5446 5 років тому +1

    Drivers are professionals, No, they're drivers.

  • @lorrainepotasnick2973
    @lorrainepotasnick2973 4 роки тому +2

    This a video fit the moleman978

  • @BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy
    @BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy 2 роки тому +1

    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
      @margotrasch5684 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @margotrasch5684
      @margotrasch5684 2 роки тому +1

      @@mae_doll So true xDD

  • @proteusduxbury
    @proteusduxbury 4 роки тому +2

    i play train simulater 2020

  • @taffytop
    @taffytop 3 роки тому +1

    The early starts put me off

  • @BrucexfromxCanada
    @BrucexfromxCanada 8 років тому +4

    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
      @jameswhite1913 7 років тому +2

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

    • @angelmonroy3012
      @angelmonroy3012 7 років тому +2

      James Whitehouse wth was that

    • @jameswhite1913
      @jameswhite1913 7 років тому +2

      Angel Monroy idk

    • @angelmonroy3012
      @angelmonroy3012 7 років тому +2

      James Whitehouse hahaha

    • @PMTLynch
      @PMTLynch 6 років тому +2

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

  • @keving126
    @keving126 6 років тому +4

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

  • @jordan4541
    @jordan4541 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @anthonystrains1672
    @anthonystrains1672 7 років тому +1

    Im not from the UK but ok👍🏼

  • @mnumzanemchunu776
    @mnumzanemchunu776 5 років тому +3

    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
    @ayylmao9078 7 років тому +8

    Damn I want to crash trains tho

    • @richardseth0399
      @richardseth0399 7 років тому +2

      bad

    • @TheArkamedBat
      @TheArkamedBat 3 роки тому +2

      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
    @EM-yk1dw 7 років тому +1

    Train driving is not professional.

    • @EricDalton1910
      @EricDalton1910 7 років тому +5

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

    • @EM-yk1dw
      @EM-yk1dw 7 років тому +2

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

    • @unknownvision7373
      @unknownvision7373 4 роки тому +1

      It is because they have thousands of lives on there hands

    • @ChangesOneTim
      @ChangesOneTim 11 місяців тому

      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.

  • @MegaShanes1
    @MegaShanes1 4 роки тому +2

    Are you allowed to drink and drive.