Commuters support Grenfell Tower collection
A team of six off-duty railway workers collected £6,500 for survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy from generous commuters at King’s Cross station, in just two days.
A team of six off-duty railway workers collected £6,500 for survivors of the Grenfell Tower tragedy from generous commuters at King’s Cross station, in just two days.
Passengers across the South East will have faster, easier, more seamless journeys into and across central London, train firm Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) revealed today.
Commuters from Hitchin and Stevenage will have 50% more fast trains to King’s Cross by the end of 2018 and new services across central London stopping at Farringdon (for Crossrail and Heathrow), and London Bridge (for Canary Wharf).
Southern plans to operate 75% of its weekday services on Thursday and Friday, 29 and 30 June, and is working to improve on this number from Monday 3 July
A Bedford train driver with Thameslink has been shortlisted for a national award
Overrunning engineering work this morning caused disruption
Over the last year Southern and Sussex Community Rail Partnership’s (SCRP) Go-Learn railway education programme, focused on teaching school children about safe and independent travel, has been delivered to almost 5,500 children, whilst also receiving excellent reviews, from both teachers and youngsters. Go-Learn, continues to engage youngsters and encourage them to be safe train travellers.
Over 100 residents gathered at Hadley Wood railway station on Friday (26 May) to celebrate the opening of a new access ramp funded and built by Great Northern in response to a community petition.
The community partnership at Cricklewood station has won Thameslink's service quality awards
Great Northern, run by Govia Thameslink Railway, today replaced all the trains between King's Lynn and Cambridge with modern, air-conditioned carriages, just in time for summer
Further to reports of an ASLEF overtime ban, Nick Brown, Chief Operating Officer at Southern’s parent company Govia Thameslink Railway, said...
In response to the RMT’s new strike date, Andy Bindon, HR Director at Govia Thameslink Railway, Southern’s parent company, said: “We are hugely disappointed that once again the RMT has called a strike...