Ely becomes first Greater Anglia rail station to have Changing Places accessible toilet facility
Ely rail station is now more accessible following the completion of redevelopment work.
Ely rail station is now more accessible following the completion of redevelopment work.
Special guests from East Grinstead and across the railway industry joined together to celebrate the opening of a new footbridge and lifts on Friday (2 September), improving accessibility for passengers at their local station.
Changes are being introduced for the next two weeks on the rail route between King's Lynn, Cambridge and London King's Cross to give rail passengers more robust services while Network Rail repairs track defects caused by the recent heatwave
Over the August Bank Holiday, Network Rail delivered a package of improvements worth over £2.8m to bring better, more reliable journeys for passengers between Hitchin and London terminals. Work on the East Coast Digital Programme will continue on Sunday 4 and Sunday 18 September, and on Sunday 9 October; no services will be able to run on the Northern City Line on these dates
Network Rail engineers have successfully completed upgrades to Littlehaven level crossing and now have the bank holiday weekend to complete final stages of work at Parsonage Road level crossing in Horsham while the railway is less busy. Work will also continue on track replacement at Faygate.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) will make a small set of timetable changes for some Southern routes from Sunday 4 September 2022. The new Autumn timetable will add 45 weekday train services overall. It is important that passengers check their journey planners for travel from 4 September.
RMT members at Network Rail and UK train operators striking on Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 August Very few trains will run, with no service at all on many lines south of London or between Cambridge and King’s Lynn There will be a late start-up (7.30am or later) and early finish (from as early as 4.30pm to 6.30pm) across the network. There will be no alternative travel. Anyon
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) are donating 600 redundant computers to The Turing Trust, the IT recycling and education charity. Most are expected to be passed on to schools in Malawi.
‘Your Station, Your Community’, the £500,000 annual social and environmental improvement fund set up by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), has been hugely oversubscribed, attracting more than £8.5 million in grant bids for its first year.
‘Your Station, Your Community’, the £500,000 annual social and environmental improvement fund set up by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), has been hugely oversubscribed, attracting more than £8.5 million in grant bids for its first year.
Network Rail have issued the following press release about engineering work affecting Thameslink and Great Northern services between Stevenage and London over the August Bank Holiday weekend:
Passengers intending to travel between London Kings Cross and Stevenage and on Great Northern routes into Moorgate over the August Bank Holiday weekend are being asked to plan ahead due to engineering work
Passengers should travel only if absolutely necessary on Southern, Great Northern and Thameslink on Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 August and the mornings after on Friday 19 and Sunday 21 August due to next week’s strike by RMT members at Network Rail and UK train operators