With this course, students will obtain both a train driver’s license and a diploma. The theoretical training will be complemented by 200 hours of effective driving entirely on Transfesa Traction trains with professionals with more than two years of experience in this service.
The registration period for the thirty available spots ends on September 22nd.
The Transfesa Logistics Railway School has convened the seventh edition of the train driver’s course, which will last 1,150 hours. The registration period for the thirty available spots ends on September 22nd.
Requirements
In order to access this specialized training, it is necessary to have a Bachelor’s or vocational training technician’s degree or equivalent for work purposes, as well as a certificate of psychophysical aptitude carried out in a centre approved by the AESF within the last year. If the applicant doesn’t have a certificate, if it is carried out in the concerted centre of Transfesa Logistics Railway School, the cost is included in the registration price.
To request pre-registration, those interested should send an email with the following documentation to school.ferroviaria@transfesa.com: application form, the degree or certificate of studies, a copy of a valid photo ID and a passport-size photo.
A well-rounded training by the best experts
The course, which will begin on November 15th, 2021, includes an iPad and an Apple Pencil for the development of the classes and to access the content. Part of the theoretical training will take place at the Madrid Chamartín-Clara Campoamor Station, from Monday to Friday from 3:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
Once this first learning block is finished, the students will take an exam to access the practical block, which will last 500 hours and will include at least 216 hours of effective driving Transfesa Traction trains with drivers with more than two years of experience in this service. In this way, they will learn first-hand with the best professionals in the sector in one of the largest railway companies in our country. Among the various destinations where they will carry out their practical training are Bilbao, León, Medina del Campo, Madrid, Alcázar de San Juan, Linares, Baeza, and Seville. The practical part will be completed with additional training in the school simulator and in various freight terminals operated or managed by the Transfesa Logistics Group. In these facilities, maneuvers will be carried out with trains that will involve driving vehicles, coupling and uncoupling, braking tests and safety regulation communications.
Obtain both the license and the diploma
Those students who complete the theoretical and practical training, after completing a final exam at the end of the course, will take the State Agency for Railway Safety’s (AESF) official exam, which will grant the students their train driver’s license and diploma.