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Greater Anglia conductor assessment

London Liverpool Street to Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge and the Essex and Suffolk coast

Greater Anglia employs conductors across its intercity, regional and branch-line services, and describes the job as the most varied on the railway, with a four-month training course in Norwich before you go back to your home depot.

Greater Anglia does publish the shape of its process, stage by stage. What it does not publish — and nor does anyone else — is what the assessment centre contains. Rather than pad this page with guesses, prepare on the pattern that holds across most operators, and treat your invitation letter as the authority.

How much we know

There is little public detail on this assessment. The stages below are the general pattern for the grade, not a confirmed list.

In order

The Greater Anglia selection stages

This is not an official Greater Anglia process description. Your invitation letter is the authority for your own.

  1. 01Online application form, around twenty minutes
  2. 02Video interview covering core competency questions, for some roles
  3. 03Assessment centre using a variety of assessment methods, for some roles
  4. 04Behaviour-based interview, structured around STAR
  5. 05Company medical, arranged before the contract is sent

Detail

Worth knowing about Greater Anglia

Practice

What to practise for Greater Anglia

Matched to the stages above. Every demo is free and needs no account.

Every process on this list ends in a competency interview. Our guide to the interview and the role play covers the competencies operators assess and how to structure an answer, and the process guide sets out every stage across the sector.

Before you apply elsewhere

Not every operator has an on-board grade

If you are comparing operators, these run driver-only services and have no conductor or guard job to apply for:

c2c
Driver-only operation on the London, Tilbury and Southend route. No conductor or guard grade.
Elizabeth line
Driver-only operation. The concession changed hands in May 2025 and is now run by GTS Rail Operations; its frontline grades are customer and revenue roles, not a conductor grade.
London Overground
Driver-only. The concession passed to First Rail London in May 2026, but the brand and the six named lines are unchanged, and the frontline grades are station and revenue roles.
Heathrow Express
Driver-only, and run by GWR under a management contract, so its train crew hiring goes through GWR rather than Heathrow Express itself.
Thameslink and Great Northern
No conductor or guard grade — these run driver-only. Both do advertise a Passenger Host grade, which is revenue, customer and security work without door or dispatch duties. Southern, in the same group, is different — see its page.
Freight operators
Freight trains have not carried guards since single-manning in the 1980s. Note the naming trap: GB Railfreight advertises “Train Manager” and “Trainee Train Manager” vacancies that are train driver roles, and asks for a driver psychometric pass within the last five years.

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Other operators that employ on-board crew

Compiled from publicly posted applicant accounts and operator job adverts, September 2026. Processes change without notice — your invitation letter is the only authority on what you will sit. Greater Anglia names no test anywhere in its published process, so nothing on this page claims one.