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.
Members of the Brighter Uckfield group recently came together with Southern, and Sussex Community Rail Partnership (SCRP), to celebrate the group formally becoming station partner for Uckfield and adopting the station.
Great Northern has helped support Cambridge based charity Red Balloon inspire youngsters in creative writing.
Members of Hitchin Priory Rotary Club, the Inner Wheel Club and Great Northern railway came together on Tuesday to celebrate the adoption of the station.
Govia Thameslink Railway has asked Acas, the advisory, conciliation and arbitration service, to facilitate talks with the RMT and is calling on the union to call off its damaging five-day strike by conductors timed to start on 8 August.
A Thameslink train that appears in the Department for Transport's crowded trains list for 2015 was lengthened by 50% a few months later. And on the metro route, which can accommodate only eight-carriage services and has two trains in the crowded list, new trains with 40% more capacity will begin running later this year.
In response to news by the RMT that its conductor members are to strike between 0001 on Monday 8 August and 2359 on Friday 12 August, Govia Thameslink Railway Chief Operating Officer Dyan Crowther said:
• Station modernisation plans would improve customer service • All staff affected have been offered a pay rise or additional allowance
Lineside fire disrupts Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express for rest of day
Passengers on the 07.05 Uckfield to London Bridge service enjoyed the comfort of 10 carriages for the first time this morning.
Anti-bullying charity Red Balloon and train operator Great Northern have joined forces to help encourage children to work together to reduce the impact of bullying on public transport.
London Bridge services disrupted until the end of the day while Network Rail repairs hole at Forest Hill
