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Network Rail have issued the following press release about major engineering work affecting Southern services between London Victoria and East Croydon, and between Shepherds Bush and Clapham Junction, over seven weekends in May and June: The upgrades in south London will improve reliability on the network while major work to improve accessibility at Gatwick Airport station will make journeys e
Southern Railway have converted an early-Victorian storage hut at Burgess Hill station into a comfortable new waiting room The 180-year-old brick hut was the station’s original main building The waiting room displays award-winning landscape photography Passengers using Burgess Hill station can now shelter in comfort in a smart new waiting room, converted from a hut that once formed the origina
Network Rail have issued the following press release about Crawley station's new lifts and footbridgePassengers in West Sussex are benefiting from a major investment to Crawley Station, part of the Department for Transport’s Access for All programme.The upgrade works will improve accessibility at Crawley station and significantly reduce the time it takes passengers to get from platform
First of 270 Southern, Gatwick Express and Great Northern ‘Electrostar’ trains updated New live-information screens and charging-/ power points installed On-board performance monitoring and fault diagnosis systems to streamline maintenance The first of 270 trains in Govia Thameslink Railway’s (GTR’s) £55 million fleet modernisation programme has returned to service with a host of new features
Network Rail have issued the following press release about the footbridge refurbishment at Goring-by-Sea station:Work is well under way to refurbish the footbridge at Goring-by-Sea station and provide a safer way of crossing the railway as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.Repairs include the renewing of staircase coverings, treads and metalwork to maintain the footbridge structu
Network Rail has issued the following press release about new platform canopies at Burgess Hill station:Network Rail has replaced two 50m canopies which stand over the platforms as well as making a raft of improvements to the station building. Burgess Hill railway station is on the Brighton Main Line and Thameslink in West Sussex. It is 41 miles down the line from London Bridge via Redhill
Following the success of their trip with Southern Railway in April last year, a group from Possability People attended their third 'Try a Train' event from Brighton to Hampden Park via Eastbourne, hosted by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR).
Passengers using the waiting room at Peckham Rye station are being treated to wonderful new art, as a result of a collaboration between Southern and a local children's academy. Mayor of Southwark Coucillor Kath Whittam welcomed passengers to come and see the art at an opening ceremony Friday evening.
Train operator Southern is advising people going to this weekend’s Brighton Pride to consider alternative travel arrangements because of the on-going industrial dispute.
Southern and Thameslink passengers are being advised to avoid using London Bridge this evening after another hole was found underneath the railway tracks at Forest Hill. This means that capacity into London Bridge is severely reduced while Network Rail works to make repairs, with many services diverted, starting/terminating short of their destinations or cancelled.
Southern has released details of the service it plans to run if the RMT’s five day conductors’ strike next week goes ahead. Talks are planned at Acas tomorrow, Wednesday and Southern says the RMT must call off the action by Thursday if it is to avoid a strike timetable on Monday.
Lineside fire disrupts Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express for rest of day
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