New Accessible Travel Policy sees disabled passengers help train colleagues across Great Northern, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express, to create a more accessible railway
Customer service teams at Britain’s biggest rail franchise have pledged to make travelling by train easier for millions of people who need help and assistance when they return to the railway in the coming weeks and month
Network Rail, Great Northern and Thameslink have issued the following news release.
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No trains at King’s Cross on Friday 23, Saturday 24 or Sunday 25 April
Only travel if absolutely essential on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 April
Network Rail is improving the track layout at King’s Cross and reopening a disused tunnel in the main stage of a £1.2b
Inventive public art on show at Denmark Hill station
Camberwell Society and Thameslink to stage a series of quirky sculptures on ‘partnership plinth’
GTR is showcasing local artists at thirty of its stations in a network-wide ‘ambience’ improvement programme
Passengers and passers-by can pause at Denmark Hill station to enjoy a quirky work of public art, thanks to a partnership between the Cam
All 235 GTR stations will have a smart water meter by this summer
Constant monitoring and leak alerts could save 40 million litres a year – 130,000 baths or 174 million cups of tea
GTR’s station improvement programme will also save water by creating wildflower areas
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has announced on World Water Day [Monday 22 March] that it will install smart water meters at all
Network Rail have issued the following press release about track improvements near Bowes Park at Easter:
Network Rail is carrying out major improvements to the track at Bowes Park over the Easter bank holiday weekend as part of a £2 million project to bring smoother, more reliable journeys for passengers.
From Saturday 3 April, teams will remove and then replace approximately 250 metres of t
Network Rail have issued the following press release about track work in preparation for the new Brent Cross West Thameslink station:
Network Rail is preparing to make further progress on the rail work at Brent Cross over Easter in the first of three weekends of work to move track that links to the new station.
Between Friday 2 and Monday 5 April, as most people enjoy their Easter eggs, team
There’s cause for celebration in Goring today as residents mark 175 years of their local train station, which was first opened on 16th March 1846. The coastal West Sussex station provides rail passengers with links to nearby Littlehampton and Hove, as well as further afield Brighton and London Victoria.
Southern operates all services running through the station, which prior to Covid-19, served
Railway community partnership creates art gallery in platform shelter
Southern displays work of local artists inspired by station’s rural environment
Transformation is among hundreds of community projects in train company’s multimillion-pound station improvement programme
A partnership between local community groups and Southern Railway has created a surprising artwork installation at Penshurs
Network Rail have issued the following press release about the repair and redecoration of Oxted Viaduct:
A vital project to protect the future of the railway from Oxted in Surrey to Uckfield and East Grinstead in Sussex continues with important bridge repairs and a new lick of paint.
Since summer 2020 we've been working on a major refurbishment of the 140-year-old Oxted Viaduct, which ca
Southern Railway have converted an early-Victorian storage hut at Burgess Hill station into a comfortable new waiting room
The 180-year-old brick hut was the station’s original main building
The waiting room displays award-winning landscape photography
Passengers using Burgess Hill station can now shelter in comfort in a smart new waiting room, converted from a hut that once formed the origina
During this year’s Green Skills Week (5th– 9th April), the UK’s largest rail operator is taking the opportunity to inspire the next generation about a sustainable future. In partnership with UK charity, Speakers for Schools, Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) will discuss how its dedicated environment team are working hard to reduce the company’s carbon footprint.
The virtual event, which takes pla
Network Rail have issued the following press release about engineering work planned for the Easter weekend:
Network Rail will use Sunday 4 and Monday 5 April over the Easter weekend to continue upgrading Gatwick Airport station which is open for travel, to improve future journeys for passengers.
Work on improving Gatwick Airport station will continue with the installation of five lifts w
