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  16 July 2026 13:45

  From bed to 'boarding now' - Gatwick Express taps into pyjama travel trend with new early morning and overnight trains

  Gatwick Express is introducing a new summer timetable from 18th July, helping customers make early and late flight connections to and from London The operator is encouraging travellers to embrace pyjama travel, which Gen Z are leading the way on - over a third admit to travelling to the airport in their sleepwear The additional trains join a host of other customer improvements this summer, includ

• Bluetooth assistive listening technology ‘a game changer’ for commuters at Brighton station

  9 July 2026 10:49

  In a first for UK Rail, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express have permanently installed innovative technology at Brighton station to help people with hearing loss as well as other commuters get to their train more easily

  

• Another London railway station upgraded to meet new, modern, standards for customer service and design

  6 July 2026 12:13

  The station environment at Gipsy Hill is now more welcoming and easier to navigate after a customer-centric upgrade where all aspects of the station environment were considered, from lighting to staff training and from accessibility to community engagement.

  

• Rail operator launches new mailbox scheme at Crawley station to support homeless veterans

  29 June 2026 15:24

  Homeless veterans and blue light workers are being helped to get back on their feet after Greater Thameslink Railway launched a new mailbox scheme at Crawley station.

  

• Bedford train collision – passenger services to resume on Monday 29 June as recovery work completed

  26 June 2026 15:29

  Recovery and repair work at the site of the Bedford train collision has now been fully completed, with passenger services on the Midland Main Line set to resume on Monday 29 June.

  

• Essential travel only on Wednesday and Thursday says train firm as extreme heatwave grips country

  23 June 2026 14:17

  Passengers with Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern are being urged to travel only if absolutely necessary on Wednesday and Thursday, 24 and 25 June, after the Met Office issued a rare Red Extreme Heat Warning across large parts of its network. Gatwick Express will be suspended early afternoon on each day

  

• Media Statement: Bedford train crash – essential travel only as passengers warned to expect disruption for the majority of next week

  21 June 2026 12:26

  Network Rail has issued the following media statement.
  Rail passengers planning to travel through Bedford next week are being warned by the rail industry to expect disruption to train services until the end of next week (28 June) and to only travel on this route if their journey is essential.
  Following an incident on Friday (19 June) involving a collision between two East Midlands Railway (E

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