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What moves you up

• Qualifying on more territory

  Each desk covers a different stretch of railway. Being signed off on several makes you valuable and harder to lay off.

• Chief rail traffic controller

  Supervises a floor of desks and handles incidents and service interruptions.

• Rules and training roles

  Instructors and rules officers are usually drawn from experienced controllers.

• Network operations and planning

  Moving from controlling trains to designing the schedules they run on.