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  • That’s what I call… enterTRAINment!

    Southern teams up with regional theatres to encourage customers to support local arts New partnership offers limited-edition discount to customers who travel to the theatre by train
    This autumn, rail company Southern is putting local theatres centre-stage with an exciting new partnership that promises to thoroughly entertrain. Teaming up with top regional theatres across its network, the comp

  • That’s what I call… enterTRAINment!

    Thameslink and Great Northern team up with regional theatres to encourage customers to support local arts New partnership offers limited-edition discount to customers who travel to the theatre by train
    This autumn, the rail company that operates Thameslink and Great Northern services, is putting local theatres centre-stage with an exciting new partnership that promises to thoroughly entertrai

  • Crash survivor Carl calls on more people who need assistance to use the railway


    Great Northern, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express, has appointed a new Accessibility Lead, wheelchair user Carl Martin.

    Recently disabled, Carl believes “access to transport is access to life”. In recent years, the industry has been on a journey of improvement to ensure the railway becomes more accessible, ensuring that as many barriers as possible are removed and everyone can tr

  • Railway colleagues recognised in national public art exhibition

    Two key workers from Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) are having their stories told by British acting royalty, Hugh Bonneville and Ciaran Griffiths, as part of a new public art exhibition created by global art producers, Wild in Art.
    Gratitude is a spectacular national public installation which opens in London tomorrow at Southwark Cathedral, near London Bridge station. The installation pays tri

  • Network Rail joins Great Northern to tidy up Hadley Wood flowerbeds

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about work at Hadley Wood station's Community Garden:

    Network Rail joined forces with Great Northern to tidy up the area around Hadley Wood station.
    Teams working on and around the East Coast Main Line volunteered their time to remove weeds near the station and tidy up the flowerbeds which had become overgrown.
    It will improve the

  • Signals away – service changes this weekend as major project continues to digitalise London’s Northern City Line

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about planned engineering work affecting services in and out of Moorgate on some weekends this autumn:
    Trains between Finsbury Park and Moorgate will divert into London King’s Cross this weekend as work continues to upgrade track and signalling East Coast Digital Programme will boost reliability and reduce delays on Northern City Line Change

  • Great Northern train tests successfully for first stage of East Coast Digital Programme

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    Govia Thameslink Railway has successfully run one of its Great Northern Moorgate Class 717 trains using the digital in-cab signalling system ETCS level 2 (European Train Control System).
    This provided important real-world proof of the track-to-train specification requir

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