Re: NSW CityRail Apprenticeship Info HERE

[signal_spotter@my-deja.com]

There were some good times in that trade but the worst job I had to do
was get underneath the locos and change the traction motor brushes. To
get to them would require crawling underneath the loco (unless it was
over a pit) and then climbing up between the axles to reach the motor
covers. Then you'd have to undo the bolts which required a great deal
of force and inveriably you'd slip and whack your head on the bogie and
utter some expletives. And underneath a loco is not the cleanest of
places especially if the loco has just collected some cattle on it's
journey. That used to turn the stomach. Yep I don't miss it at all.
Still it was a stepping stone to a bigger and better career.

regards Ian
Signal Design Engineer

In article <8p3a11$ung$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>,
  "Skippy" <fowler9@skippy9spammeifyoudare.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Wasn't knocking it. I applied about 8 years back& didn't get passed
the
> assesment test. Did the exact same test 6 years back for the
commonwealth
> Bank & passed that stage easy????? Hell if I was in Syd right now or
in Oct
> I'd be applying again. I'd love to work as Elec Fitter or just like
yourself
> which is what I went for in the 1st place.
>
> Skippy
>
> "signal_engineer" <hayesipNOhaSPAM@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote in
message
> news:011c5cf8.ed19ae1f@usw-ex0106-044.remarq.com...
> > In article <8p0lmc$9ia$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, "Skippy"
> > <fowler9@skippy9spammeifyoudare.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Extract taken from web site below.....
> > > You are trained in the manufacture, maintenance and repair of high
> > > and low
> > > voltage electrical equipment for our Tangara, Suburban,
> > > Inter-urban, XPT,
> > > Xploder and Endeavour train fleets
> > > "OK boss... so if I take this positive wire & plug it into this
> > > negative
> > > slot it'll work"
> > > "Johnny no don't do that you'll blow us..... "
> > > KABOOM....  good bye another exploder.... LOL
> > > Skippy
> > > "Erk" <erk@erkV69.au.com> wrote in message
> > > news:39b355c9@news.iprimus.com.au...
> > > >
> > >
http://www.cityrail.nsw.gov.au/PFM_Apprenticeships/Apprenticeships2
> > > 000.htm
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Eric
> > > > www.erk.au.com
> > > > erk@erkV69.au.com
> > > > (Remove the V69 to reply)
> > > >
> > > >
> > Hey don't knock the SRA apprentice scheme. I'm a product of that
scheme
> > (Elec Fitter). Err...maybe that's not a good arguement after all. :-
)
> >
> > regards Ian
> > Signal Design Engineer
> >
> >
> >
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