Crossing keeper assessment practice
Practice for the online tests Network Rail sends crossing keeper applicants, which it describes as aptitude testing and behavioural questionnaires. A crossing keeper applicant has reported a risk and safety questionnaire, a concentration test and a reaction test; signaller applicants in the same discussion reported multi-tasking and a memory grid too. Here are the four exercises we already build for that battery, plus level crossing scenarios written for this job.
Multi-tasking
Three things at once: arithmetic, a shape stream to watch for repeats, and something to steer.
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Concentration
Decide fast and repeatedly whether a figure meets the rule — and spot the one that does not.
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Level crossing scenarios
What a crossing keeper does when a car stops on the crossing, the barriers stick or a user will not wait.
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Memory grid
Hold a sequence of dot positions in order while something else keeps interrupting you.
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Questionnaire briefing
A multiple-choice briefing on the agree/disagree questionnaire: which skill each statement reads, and which answers contradict each other. Not a copy of the questionnaire itself.
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What the crossing keeper tests are
Crossing keepers lower and raise the barriers at level crossings, make sure a crossing is clear before a train reaches it, and deal with the public, the signaller and anything that goes wrong. Network Rail recruits them through a five-stage journey: an eligibility check, online testing, a video interview, an assessment day and a conditional offer. It describes the online testing as aptitude tests and behavioural questionnaires, but it does not publish what is in them.
The applicant reports we have found are from 2021, and one poster said the tests differ by grade. So the table below is a guide to the kind of test you may meet, not a promise of what is in yours. Check your invitation for the tests you will actually sit.
Network Rail's own crossing keeper page covers the job and requirements, and its recruitment journey page sets out the stages. Read both alongside anything here.
What applicants report, and what to practise
Risk and safety behavioural questionnaire
Reported by a crossing keeper applicant (2021); Network Rail names a “safety & risk questionnaire”
Practise with: Questionnaire briefing, plus the level crossing scenarios
Reaction test
Reported by a crossing keeper applicant (2021)
Practise with: No dedicated exercise. The steering task inside multi-tasking is the closest.
Multi-tasking test
Reported by signaller applicants in the same discussion, not by the crossing keeper applicant
Practise with: Multi-tasking
Memory grid (gridChallenge)
Reported by signaller applicants in the same discussion, not by the crossing keeper applicant
Practise with: Memory grid
The four shared exercises are the same ones on our signaller pages, so their pages are written for signaller applicants. The level crossing scenarios are written for this job. Network Rail does not say that a scenario test is part of the crossing keeper online tests. We include one because the job turns on these decisions, and the video interview and assessment day ask about them.
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Crossing keeper guides
These are original practice exercises. Network Rail says crossing keeper applicants sit online aptitude tests and behavioural questionnaires but does not publish the exercises, and the most detailed applicant reports we have found are from 2021 and suggest the tests vary by grade, so check your invitation for what you will actually sit. These are not the official exercises, and this site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Network Rail.