Freight Train Driver Course
This course equips aspiring freight train drivers with essential skills for safe and efficient rail operations, covering inspections, handling challenges, regulatory compliance, communication, and emergency response.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Freight Train Driver Course provides targeted, practical training to develop safe and assured handling in actual settings. Gain skills in accurate pre-trip and onboard inspections, wagon and engine checks, braking mechanisms, and operational boundaries. Become proficient in regulations, paperwork, managing dangerous goods, signals, path planning, human elements, and crisis handling to ensure each trip is rule-abiding, effective, and properly managed.
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Develop skills
- Perform freight train safety inspections: brakes, wagons, load and engine.
- Organise and operate heavy freight: slopes, braking turns and slippery tracks.
- Follow rail dangerous goods guidelines: papers, labels and fastening.
- Connect with depots and control rooms via straightforward, routine radio messages.
- Handle rail events: secure the track, control leaks and notify quickly.
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