Southern and Thameslink services into London Bridge are set to be disrupted tomorrow morning as Network Rail and Thames Water Engineers work to investigate options for repairing the hole underneath the railway tracks at Forest Hill. The hole appeared earlier this afternoon and is thought to lead down to a sewer which runs underneath the tracks.
Great Northern train staff will be treating festival-goers to this year’s Secret Garden Party (21 July to 24 July) near Huntingdon to a free welly wash as part of their plans to cater for those of the 34,000-strong crowd who choose to travel by train. The last few years have seen heavy rain and a lot of mud.
Southern is adding more services to the revised timetable it introduced on Monday to reduce delays and provide improved capacity on the busiest routes. These include more trains on the Tulse Hill, Peckham Rye route, the Mole Valley route between Dorking and Epsom and a train to and from Seaford and also to and from Lewes.
Scotty’s Little Soldiers has adopted King’s Lynn Train Station as part of its ongoing work to support bereaved children who have lost a parent serving in the British Armed Forces.
Some 82% of Southern services are running to time against the temporary weekday revised timetable introduced today to reduce the impact on passengers and staff of unpredictable and late notice cancellations.
As of 08:30 over 92% of Southern services were running to time against the temporary weekday revised timetable, implemented on the morning of Monday 11 July, to reduce the impact on passengers and staff of unpredictable and late notice cancellations.
Network Rail has apologised after a derailed engineering train caused the line from Purely to Caterham to be closed on the morning of Friday 8 July.
Last week members of the Northaw and Cuffley Residents’ Association formally adopted Great Northern’s Cuffley railway station.
Southern is introducing a temporary revised weekday timetable from Monday 11 July to reduce the impact on passengers and staff of unpredictable and late notice cancellations caused daily by unprecedented levels of train crew sickness and unwillingness among others to work overtime.
Responding to the latest National Rail Passenger Survey by Transport Focus, in which Thameslink passenger satisfaction for the period 11 January to 20 March rose, year-on-year from 70% to 74%, Passenger Service Director Stuart Cheshire said:
Responding to the latest National Rail Passenger Survey by Transport Focus, in which Great Northern passenger satisfaction for the period 11 January to 20 March fell, year-on-year, from 80% to 74%, Passenger Service Director Keith Jipps said:
Transport Focus has published the results of the spring 2016 National Rail Passenger Survey. Southern, Gatwick Express and Network Rail have responded as follows:
