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Having been training to become a driver for 5 months now, I find the practical, hands-on sessions very diverse and extremely interesting. We acquire loads of know-how about the locomotives in the fleet and see at first-hand how things operate on different sites. I particularly enjoy driving because of the sense of responsibility that it gives me.”

Currently at the 3rd stage of the training program, I am trying to rapidly assimilate everything that I have learned so as to be able to put it into practice on the simulator and out in the field.
The strong team spirit between colleagues allows us space to discuss the different subjects introduced during theory lessons, to review our difficulties and mutually help one another.
Our trainers are also very good listeners and provide us with invaluable support. The way in which they passionately and patiently transmit their professional know-how to us helps to create an atmosphere that is conducive to top-quality learning!
What I enjoy most of all are the practical, hands-on sessions alongside our driver-mentors. They assign many important tasks, expressing real confidence in our abilities!

It’s a difficult profession, a closed shop, predominantly male… Before embarking on the training program I had many such preconceived ideas about the job of train driver. Discovering the railway business at first-hand enabled me to go beyond these suppositions. Train driving is a profession that is open to all and which offers many development opportunities.

Before becoming a train driver, I was a delivery man. I decided that I wanted to be a train driver at CAPTRAIN France, a job that is routine-free!