...drove a train, a tram and rode with my train driver friends on the loco on many occasions (yes, those were different times when it comes to Health and Safety and other stuff, don't ask :P) I can leak you a little secret: train driving ITSELF is actually bloody easy. - ThreadSky

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orynski.eu • 7 days ago

...drove a train, a tram and rode with my train driver friends on the loco on many occasions (yes, those were different times when it comes to Health and Safety and other stuff, don't ask :P) I can leak you a little secret: train driving ITSELF is actually bloody easy.

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orynski.eu•7 days ago

(if some of train drivers does not agree, I'd recomend they take a 25 metre long truck and drive it around Nordic countries in winter then reverse it to an icy loading bay or unload 40 pallets with a tailift on a slippery slope during snowstorm using just a pump truck, then come back to me).

orynski.eu•7 days ago

And what baffles me is that as a Railway College graduate, I obviously have several friends who drive trains or other rail things (like Plasser & Threuer tampers or just trams) in Poland and in Ireland.

orynski.eu•7 days ago

And none of them claims it's especially challenging or difficult job. If anything, they describe it as "cosy and easy, sometimes a bit dull" and the biggest complain they have is usually buearocracy and the fact, they are not allowed to listen to the radio when driving.

orynski.eu•7 days ago

My little "conspiracy theory" is that British train drivers are so active online in telling people how difficult and poorly paid their job is, because if the public was aware that it is, actually, nothing special compared to drivers of other kinds of vehicles, they would start questioning why...

orynski.eu•7 days ago

...train drivers should earn so much when HGV drivers for example who spent up to 15 hours per day stuck in traffic, navigating streets of central London having to watch for idiot drivers, cyclits in blind spots and mind-absent pedestrians, who unload tonnes of cargo manually only make half as much.

orynski.eu•7 days ago

or if salaries of train drivers really should be a top concern for the public when nurses and carers are forced to rely on foodbank to survive.

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