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GTR announces biggest ever timetable shake-up in major advance for rail expansion
Press Releases • Apr 24, 2018 05:43 BST
With a month to go, passengers urged to check details
Easter rail services with Great Northern
Press Releases • Mar 27, 2018 11:53 BST
Passengers asked to check before they travel
Patrick Verwer to replace Nick Brown as COO of Govia Thameslink Railway
Press Releases • Mar 21, 2018 12:40 GMT
Patrick Verwer will join Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) as Chief Operating Officer, replacing Nick Brown.
Great Northern and Southern driving change in the rail industry – celebrating our female colleagues
Press Releases • Mar 08, 2018 14:55 GMT
Women account for half of Great Northern and Southern’s recent intake of trainee train drivers, says rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), as it celebrates female colleagues across the business to mark International Women’s Day 2018.
GTR gives passengers taste of vastly expanded services
Press Releases • Mar 08, 2018 09:45 GMT
- Curtain-raiser for Thameslink trains to run from scores more stations direct to central London and beyond - Extra capacity for 40,000 more passengers in May - Journey times to be cut for thousands of commuters
Great Northern services in Cambridgeshire close down early tonight
Press Releases • Feb 26, 2018 16:40 GMT
Snow affecting trains
GTR’s abandoned station bikes transform lives for adults with learning difficulties
Press Releases • Feb 01, 2018 14:56 GMT
GTR response to National Rail Passenger Satisfaction Survey (Autumn 2017)
News • Jan 30, 2018 12:02 GMT
Thameslink records its highest-ever levels of passenger satisfaction and Southern showing signs of recovery
GTR launches Passenger Security Awareness campaign
Press Releases • Jan 30, 2018 10:27 GMT
At Blackfriars station this morning Govia Thameslink Railway launched a network-wide tour of security awareness events. The company’s Crime & Security team reminded passengers of the need for vigilance while they travel, and how to recognise and report anything suspicious. The team moves on to Brighton tomorrow (31 January from 7.00 to 9.00am) and then across the GTR network.
Railway bridge upgrades will prevent future delays for Ely to Kings Lynn passengers but close Fen line for five working days
Press Releases • Jan 18, 2018 13:33 GMT
Network Rail press release details work that will shut the Fen Line between King's Lynn and Ely for half term week
GTR offers new travel support for passengers with communication difficulties
Press Releases • Jan 15, 2018 15:24 GMT
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is introducing sets of innovative rail travel access aids to support passengers who need help with communication, such as those who are hard of hearing or have language or learning difficulties.
GTR response to National Audit Office report
News • Jan 10, 2018 09:46 GMT
Great Northern gives Cambridge charity free rail travel to help bullied children
Press Releases • Jan 09, 2018 13:16 GMT
Red Balloon, founded in Cambridge 21 years ago to support and educate children and youngsters bullied to such a degree they can’t stay at school, has been given a year’s free travel with Great Northern, the rail company operated by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR)
You’re hired! GTR gives 10 more Prince’s Trust youngsters a start in life
Press Releases • Dec 20, 2017 11:36 GMT
GTR gives 10 out-of-work youngsters a job
Santa serves up treat for children at Thameslink and Great Northern stations
Press Releases • Nov 28, 2017 13:17 GMT
Santa will be swapping his sleigh for the train this December to greet children at railway stations on Govia Thameslink Railway’s Thameslink and Great Northern routes.
Govia Thameslink launches third consultation phase on once-in-a-generation timetable restructure
Press Releases • Nov 24, 2017 10:07 GMT
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has today opened the third phase of public consultation on the once-in-a-generation timetable transformation made possible by the £7 billion Thameslink Programme.
Thameslink and Great Northern railway staff raise over £14,000 for Keech hospice
Press Releases • Nov 23, 2017 10:52 GMT
Thameslink and Great Northern railway staff have given Keech Hospice Care in Luton a further £518 at the end of a year's support which has netted the charity over £14,000
Biker crash inspires Great Northern and Thameslink railway staff to adopt air ambulance charity
Press Releases • Nov 22, 2017 11:00 GMT
A motorcyclist from Waterbeach, near Cambridge, whose life was saved by the East Anglian Air Ambulance, has inspired Great Northern and Thameslink railway staff to adopt the cause for the year, making an initial donation of over £1,000.
Wide range of benefits revealed for May 2018 South East timetable
Press Releases • Nov 20, 2017 10:54 GMT
Govia Thameslink Railway has announced the range of benefits that will be delivered in May 2018 as it modernises the biggest rail network in the country, bringing in new trains operating on new improved infrastructure with new working practices