GTR announces biggest ever timetable shake-up in major advance for rail expansion
With a month to go, passengers urged to check details
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Southern gives life lessons in rail to 7,000 more schoolchildren
Southern Railway, run by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), gave more than 7,000 schoolchildren lessons in safe independent travel over the past year through its expanding Go-Learn scheme. Over 17,000 youngsters from Sussex and Surrey have now benefited
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Southern invests in new community rail partnership on south coast
The Sussex Community Rail Partnership (SCRP) and Govia Thameslink Railway (Southern) today announced the formation of a new community rail partnership covering the stations and communities between Hove and Angmering.
It will promote the railway and its importance to the community and connect with the existing community rail partnership lines of Seaford to Brighton in the east and Gatwick to Chi -
Rail passengers urged to check before they travel in the South East this Easter weekend
Network Rail has issued this press release about engineering work that will affect our services this Easter:
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Easter rail services with Great Northern
Passengers asked to check before they travel
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GTR passengers ride UK’s first self-drive mainline train
Services will run at Tube-like frequencies thanks to new technology 12 routes to cross London, speeding up journeys Helps boost capacity by 60,000 passengers in 2019
MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2018: Govia Thameslink Railway passengers have ridden the UK’s first self-drive mainline train in a major milestone for the industry.
The Thameslink trains will in future use the technology, developed by Siem -
Best-selling author launches Bedford station book exchange
Thameslink platform staff and Bedford residents have teamed up to create a free book exchange at the town station for passengers and staff
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Patrick Verwer to replace Nick Brown as COO of Govia Thameslink Railway
Patrick Verwer will join Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) as Chief Operating Officer, replacing Nick Brown.
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World-first for ATO on mainline railway
Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and Siemens have scored a world-first by running ATO (Automatic Train Operation) over ETCS (European Train Control System) on the mainline railway in passenger service
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Rail-charity partnership a real life-saver
The Sussex Heart Charity invests £100,000 in AEDs across Southern’s railway stations
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Blue plaque at Seaford station commemorates West Indian soldiers
A blue plaque unveiled at Seaford station on Commonwealth Day this week was dedicated to the regiment of soldiers from the West Indies who were posted to Seaford during WWI.
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Great Northern and Southern driving change in the rail industry – celebrating our female colleagues
Women account for half of Great Northern and Southern’s recent intake of trainee train drivers, says rail operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), as it celebrates female colleagues across the business to mark International Women’s Day 2018.
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GTR gives passengers taste of vastly expanded services
- Curtain-raiser for Thameslink trains to run from scores more stations direct to central London and beyond - Extra capacity for 40,000 more passengers in May - Journey times to be cut for thousands of commuters
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Great Northern services in Cambridgeshire close down early tonight
Snow affecting trains
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Southern response to RMT strike date
Southern response to RMT strike date
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Memorial to teenage train enthusiast
A memorial bench was unveiled at Hassocks station on Monday 19 February for a young train enthusiast who passed away last year.
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Bedford College students take to Thameslink
A group of Bedford College students with learning difficulties took part in a 'Try a Train' event from Bedford to London last week.
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Wallington school’s footballers sport Southern logo
Young footballers at Tweeddale Primary School in Wallington are now turning out in a new strip sponsored by Southern Railway.
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GTR’s abandoned station bikes transform lives for adults with learning difficulties
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is using bikes abandoned at its railway stations to help people with learning difficulties acquire new skills and build their independence.
The company gave TAG Bikes workshop, based in Huntingdon Community Centre, just under 50 bikes left at stations on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes after its distribution manager heard they’d put out an appeal in the l -
GTR response to National Rail Passenger Satisfaction Survey (Autumn 2017)
Thameslink records its highest-ever levels of passenger satisfaction and Southern showing signs of recovery
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