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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Natalie Wilson

Teenagers could be recruited as train drivers to help UK’s railway staffing crisis

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A new proposal from the Department for Transport aims to attract younger train drivers into the cab to tackle the UK’s railway staffing crisis.

Plans to lower the minimum age of train driver recruits from 20 to 18 could allow school leavers to qualify as drivers from as soon as this summer.

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