Stevenage FC’s Academy promotes face-covering by young rail travellers Thameslink provide free travel passes for football apprentices
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Stevenage FC Academy have announced an expansion of their long-standing community partnership, now in its seventh year.
As the second lockdown begins, the club’s apprentices are acting as role-model rail passengers, helping
Network Rail have issued the following press release:
Extensive improvements are being made across Balham station which serves as an interchange for train and tube services across south London and beyond.
Work has started on a face-lift of Balham station which is due to end in Spring 2021 and will focus on improving several features of the station, including:
Platform canopies - new shee
Network Rail have issued the following press release:
Passengers will now benefit from improved access at Eridge station in East Sussex after the opening of a new £1.8m footbridge. The work was needed due to the age and condition of the old structure, in order to protect the safety of those using the bridge and the trains operating below.
Eridge station serves the rural district in East Suss
Network Rail have issued the following press release about renovation of Eastbourne station:
Network Rail has invested £5m to enhance the look and feel of Eastbourne station in East Sussex. The work included canopy refurbishment, slate roof replacement, masonry work to the front of the station and new roofing above the atrium.
The enhancement works on the Grade II listed station will benefit
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More passengers than ever before can now travel with e-tickets on Southern Railway, helping people socially distance, preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Twelve extra stations along the south coast between Chichester and Eastbourne now have barcode readers installed on the ticket gates for passengers to sc
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), the UK’s biggest rail operator which runs the Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express services, has, through a series of dedicated recruitment and marketing campaigns, successfully managed to double the number of female train driver applicants from 413 in 2019, to 825 in 2020[i]. A remarkable feat for an industry usually seen as dark, dusty and bett
The Mayor of Elstree & Borehamwood Town Council, Cllr Simon Rubner, has opened the local Thameslink station’s new £200,000 cycle parking hub.
With two-tier storage for up to 100 bikes, the hub is the largest of four built at Thameslink stations this year. The new LED-lit hub also has CCTV, a maintenance area and free access using Thameslink’s ‘Key’ smartcard.
At an event hosted by Thames
Homelessness in the UK is increasing year-on-year and has been heightened during the pandemic, with reports of rough sleepers up by 36%[1]. The issue is particularly prevalent on the railway, which is why the UK’s largest rail operator has signed a new charter to help safeguard vulnerable people and communities.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), is the first train operating company to put its nam
Network Rail has issued the following reminder of major engineering work affecting train services in and out of King's Cross station this coming weekend:
Network Rail and train operators on the East Coast Main Line are reminding passengers not to travel to or from London King’s Cross, or on Thameslink services via Finsbury Park this weekend (Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October), as essential work
Luton Town FC apprentice footballers have this season joined forces with Thameslink to encourage reluctant teens to wear face coverings on trains.
For the 13th year running, Thameslink have given the latest intake of 17- and 18-year-olds at the Hatters a year’s free travel to their places of study and training. Some could not afford to attend otherwise.
In return the Academy players are act
This week the British public will vote for their favourite railway station in the World Cup of Stations 2020
Welwyn Garden City has made the shortlist of 48 stations which will compete head to head in the online poll
Stations and staff have been playing a key role supporting Britain’s recovery from COVID-19
In the regional stage, Welwyn Garden City will be up against “local rival” Cambridge
This week the British public will vote for their favourite railway station in the World Cup of Stations 2020
Bedford has made the shortlist of 48 stations which will compete head to head in the online poll
Stations and staff have been playing a key role supporting Britain’s recovery from COVID-19
Bedford will face competition from East region rivals Kempston Hardwick
The people of Bedford are
Great Northern’s new Hertfordshire trains have already generated enough electricity through their brakes to power the equivalent of all the households of Welwyn and Hatfield Borough for a month, potentially saving more than 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
Great Northern MD Tom Moran and Catherine West MP chose today, Clean Air Day (Thursday 8 October), to celebrate the trains’ first y
With ongoing uncertainty due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to prioritise health and wellbeing. That’s why Southern, part of the UK’s largest rail operator, has teamed up with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to launch a pilot scheme featuring ‘drop-in’ mental health hubs, following World Mental Health Day this Saturday (10th October).
The new hubs, based at Bri
Network Rail has issued the following press release about engineering work affecting vehicle access to Cuffley station:
Network Rail is advising drivers, cyclists and pedestrians in Cuffley that closures will be in place on Station Road over the next few months, as major work takes place on a £3.2million project to upgrade the railway bridge.
Preparation work is being carried out on site th
After receiving a coveted accolade in this year’s ‘railway Oscars’, Great Northern’s Downham Market station staff invited local community representatives to join them in celebration.
Downham Market was highly commended in the Small Station of the Year category at the 2020 National Rail Awards ceremony, held online this year owing to Covid-19 restrictions.
Tom Moran, Managing Director for Tha
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St Albans City Hospital nurse Jane O’Connor is the first proud winner of a bicycle restored and donated by a partnership between rail operator Thameslink, St Albans City & District Council and St Albans Cycle Campaign (STACC). Jane received her bike at a presentation attended by St Albans MP Daisy Cooper.
Thameslink has donated s
Nestled away in the Arun district of West Sussex is a workplace home to hundreds of dedicated railway workers – and today marks the 25th anniversary of the site’s operations.
From train drivers and conductors, to on-board supervisors, driver managers and station teams, Southern’s Barnham depot is one of Govia Thameslink Railway’s biggest bases and is steeped in local family history.
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Network Rail has issued the following press release.
Network Rail and train operators on the East Coast Main Line are urging passengers not to travel to or from London King’s Cross, or on Thameslink services to or from St Pancras International via Finsbury Park, on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October, as vital work continues on the East Coast Upgrade.
The £1.2billion East Coast Upgrade will tr
Two Govia Thameslink Railway station assistants at the opposite ends of their careers have each won a major national rail award for their outstanding contribution in helping passengers, while Southern Railway was highly commended in the category Passenger Operator of the Year, and GTR for the introduction of more than 1,500 new carriages worth over £2bn.
Thameslink's Siggy Cragwell, aged 80, ha
