Helen Firth has just lately joined LNER’s service supply group after spending 13 years crusing the world, latterly as a petty officer.

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Helen stated: “My specialism was monitoring enemy submarines and retaining tabs on our personal submarines.

“Like whales, each vessel makes a singular sound, and I used to be educated to detect these sounds and establish who was within the space.

“It was an interesting job.”

Helen stated when the time got here to go away the Navy, a former colleague who’d joined the railway as a signaller sparked her curiosity within the trade.

She stated: ““I noticed that LNER have been trying to recruit a Buyer Data Controller to work within the Rail Operations Centre.

“The position appeared an ideal match for the abilities I’d honed out at sea.

“Like monitoring subs, to run providers safely and on time, we have to know the place our trains are always.

“After we expertise unplanned occasions such extreme climate or an engineering fault, fast reactions are wanted to efficiently reroute providers and get our clients to the place they should be, and my position contains ensuring info is shared rapidly and precisely.”