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DismissScotRail is a train operator. They run train services across Scotland.
scotrail.co.ukScotRail job reviews
Showing 27 reviews
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Best thing
Good opportunities
Worst thing
Hours can be antisocial
ScotRail Employee, December 2023
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Best thing
Good shifts, plenty overtime available
Worst thing
Lack of communication between departments, lack of forward planning by management
ScotRail Maintenance engineer, November 2023
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Best thing
Flexible (if you're accepted for flexible working), fun, very little input from managers, scenic, unionised to the hilt, brilliant conditions
Worst thing
Not exactly safe, infrastructure lacking, dirty, shifts that might not suit everyone
ScotRail Train driver, October 2023
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Best thing
Free travel, long weekends, 28 days annual leave plus days in lieu.
Worst thing
Anti social behaviour.
ScotRail Employee, July 2023
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Best thing
Visit new place everyday
Driving a variety of TrainsWorst thing
Dealing with people
FatalitiesScotRail Train driver, May 2023
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Worst thing
Shift work, working most weekends, antisocial behaviour, very poor management who don't support staff.
ScotRail Conductor, March 2023
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Best thing
Driving trains, the hours and the breaks
Worst thing
Mental health, shift work, fatigue
ScotRail Train driver, January 2023
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Best thing
Good amount of Holidays
Not micro managedWorst thing
Shiftwork
Safety critical
Hard to take holiday daysScotRail Train driver, June 2022
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Best thing
Managers are very understanding always willing to help. Constant mental health support. Just being able to assist pax & make someone’s day easier.
Worst thing
Constant verbal abuse from pax
ScotRail CSA, February 2022
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Best thing
Good time off, sick pay and pension
Worst thing
Extreme shifts
ScotRail Train driver, June 2021
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Best thing
Good colleagues and sense of camaraderie. Free and discounted rail travel.
Worst thing
Terrible shifts. Very tiring environment. Difficult and sometimes unsafe environment. No support from management and no real care for challenges staff face. A toxic place at times.
ScotRail Conductor, June 2021
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Best thing
Good shifts, good pay and pensions, sick pay
Worst thing
Incompetent managers, never enough equipment in stores, equipment misplaced or broken
ScotRail Employee, May 2021
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Best thing
I drive trains
Worst thing
I don’t get to drive them on the mainline
ScotRail Depot operative, April 2021
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Best thing
The scenery.
Being out and about
FreedomWorst thing
Dealing with people
Working aloneScotRail Ticket examiner, March 2021
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Best thing
Work life balance.
Worst thing
Some unsociable hours.
ScotRail Conductor, March 2021
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Best thing
Security
Worst thing
Working alone a lot
ScotRail Employee, March 2021
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Best thing
Salary and conditions
Worst thing
Shift work
ScotRail Driver, February 2021
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Best thing
Love my job enjoy most of it
Worst thing
Shift work, the hours.
ScotRail Conductor, January 2021
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Best thing
pay, perks
Worst thing
management, covid, non essential passengers
ScotRail Customer service advisor, January 2021
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Best thing
Pay, conditions and time off.
Worst thing
Management being clueless.
Idiotic passengers.ScotRail Gateline, December 2020
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Best thing
Pay, time off, free travel
Worst thing
Out of date safety systems, paper rosters done weekly, rail track side poor vegetation management and poor signage and signals
ScotRail Driver, December 2020
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Best thing
Conditions, and job security
Worst thing
Shifts can sometimes be tiring
ScotRail Driver, December 2020
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Best thing
Pay
Working hours
ColleaguesWorst thing
Abusive customers
Early shiftsScotRail Conductor, October 2020
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Best thing
Money and helping people
Worst thing
Last minute shift changes and management poor decisions
ScotRail Retail assistant, October 2020
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Best thing
Time off, rate of pay, benefits
Worst thing
Late night services which can be rowdy
ScotRail Ticket examiner, August 2020
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Best thing
wages and conditiond
Worst thing
tolerating nasty people
ScotRail Sgb, August 2020
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Best thing
Good pay, good work/life balance, good co-workers
Worst thing
Invisible management, nepotism among management
ScotRail Maintenance engineer, November 2019