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  • GTR colleagues and guests celebrate the launch of the new podcast series at The Capitol Horsham

    GTR supports launch of new podcast series on its scenic Sussex destinations

    Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which runs Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern, has supported the launch of a new podcast series on destinations across its picturesque Sussex network.
    To celebrate the seven-episode series being released today (20 March), more than 30 guests were invited to an exclusive film screening at the Capitol Horsham last week to watch ‘the Arun Vall

  • Platform refurbishment at Southbourne station

    Southbourne station in West Sussex gets a new lease of life thanks to platform refurbishment

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about Southbourne station's platform refurbishment:
    Passengers in West Sussex will now benefit from £383k platform upgrade to improve journeys for all who use the station.
    Southbourne railway station serves the village of Southbourne in West Sussex. It is on the West Coastway Line between Brighton and Southampton and lies on the edge of th

  • Southern comment regarding homeless man at Sutton station

    Southern Rail has issued the following comment after a video appeared online featuring station staff and a homeless man at Sutton station:
    Angie Doll, Passenger Services Director for Southern Railway, said: "We take this incident extremely seriously and have started an investigation. We suspended the two members of staff seen in the video and a third colleague who we identified from station CCT

  • Fares rise on 2 January 2019

    ​Fares on Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern and Gatwick Express will rise by an average of 2.97% which is less than the rate of inflation and less than the national average

  • GTR response to Transport Select Committee report

    STRICTLY EMBARGOED TO 00:01 HOURS ON TUESDAY 4 DECEMBER 2018
    Responding to the Transport Select Committee’s report into the May timetable changes (also embargoed as above), Patrick Verwer, Chief Executive of Govia Thameslink Railway, said: 
    “We acknowledge the report by the Transport Select Committee into the industry-wide issues surrounding the introduction of the May timetable.
    “We hav

  • Urgent travel advice

    Passengers are advised NOT to travel with Thameslink, Southern or Gatwick Express from the south into London this morning due to a major signalling fault

  • GTR response to National Audit Office report

    Responding to today’s National Audit Office report into the Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern franchise, Charles Horton, Chief Executive of franchise operator Govia Thameslink Railway said:
    “The Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) franchise is making good progress in delivering a major upgrade programme to improve reliability and boost capacity on the most congested part of t

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