Topics: Transport

  • Crowborough and East Grinstead stations both benefit from step-free access for the first time, thanks to over £9m invested to improve accessibility

    Network Rail has issued the following press release
    Network Rail is managing and delivering station accessibility enhancements as part of the Department for Transport’s Access for All programme. Work began on 1 November 2021 with completion in autumn 2022.
    Network Rail is upgrading both Crowborough and East Grinstead stations with a new footbridge and new lifts, providing Southern Rail and,

  • “The next train will call at 40 art galleries …”

    GTR installs over 200 works of community art across the Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern network professional, student and hobby artists create paintings, mosaics and sculptures for 40 stations in eight counties station ambience improvement programme also includes 90 landscaping projects and 50 redecoration schemes
    Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has put over 200 works of community art

  • Rail passengers urged to plan ahead of vital junction rebuild


    Passengers are being urged to plan ahead of vital engineering work that will greatly reduce rail services between Cambridge and London on 11 and 12 December.

    Govia Thameslink Railway is finishing a major upgrade to Cambridge’s train depot, creating servicing facilities and stabling (parking between turns of duty) for the new fleets of Thameslink, Great Northern and Greater Anglia trains

  • Essential maintenance on the Brighton Main Line this weekend - check before you travel

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about changes to train services on the Brighton Main Line over the next four weekends:
    Passengers travelling between Three Bridges and Gatwick Airport are advised to check before they travel this weekend as Network Rail continues work on a major upgrade of the Brighton Main Line.
    Network Rail are upgrading the line between Three Bridges an

  • Rail partnership brings exciting new activity trail to Beds and Herts

    To promote the train line from Bedford to St Albans and encourage children to learn about their surroundings, Thameslink has partnered with Mini Map-Makers and Beds & Herts Community Rail Partnership to launch a new, interactive trail in time for half term.
    Launching on Tuesday 26th October at the restored St Albans South Signal Box Museum, the new ‘Symbol Spot’ trail provides children and

  • Great Northern lifesaver joins charities to promote use of CPR and defibrillators

    Potters Bar lifesaver, Welwyn Garden City resident and London British Heart Foundation nurse promote Restart A Heart Day  Biggest roll-out on UK rail network Part of £15m station improvement programme
    On the eve of Restart A Heart Day (16 October), Great Northern, Thameslink and Southern have announced they will shortly have publicly-accessible, life-saving automated external defibrillators (

  • Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink fit life-saving defibrillators to every one of their stations

    Biggest roll-out on UK rail network Part of £15m station improvement programme
    On the eve of Restart A Heart Day (16 October), Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink have announced they will shortly have publicly-accessible, life-saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at every one of their 238 stations (full list here), the largest roll-out of heart restarters on the UK’s rail netwo

  • No trains between London Victoria and East Croydon this weekend (Saturday 16 to Sunday 17 October) due to important railway upgrades

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about re-signalling work that will affect train services o and from London Victoria station this weekend:
    The project to modernise 1980s track and signalling on lines into London Victoria station will improve reliability and help even more passenger and freight trains arrive on time.
    Passengers are advised to check before travelling on Sat

  • Studio Upstairs invites rail passengers to ‘Open Your Art’ at South Croydon station

    Arts and mental health charity Studio Upstairs has issued the following press release about the artworks its members have created for South Croydon station:
    Southern and Thameslink passengers returning to South Croydon station will be inspired and uplifted by twenty-three new artworks in waiting rooms and along platforms, subway and stairways.
    As part of its network-wide station improvement

  • Rail operator on the hunt for 250 new apprentices

    The number of 2022 apprenticeships on offer at the companies will rise by 25%
    The number of apprenticeships on offer across rail firms Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express will increase by a quarter in 2022, with 250 programmes available across departments, including engineering, customer services, train driving and administration.
    The rail operator’s apprenticeship progr

  • Network Rail announces nine-day closure of Brighton Main Line between Three Bridges, Brighton and Lewes for major engineering work

    Network Rail have issued the following press release about major projects on the Brighton Main Line in the first quarter of 2022:
    Network Rail engineers will use a nine-day closure of the Brighton Main Line in February next year, to deliver an £11m junction renewal near Haywards Heath and build a new underpass at Hassocks.
    As a result of the work, the railway between Three Bridges, Brighton

  • 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 travel mor

  • 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 expe

  • 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

    There are more pictures to download at bottom of press release Interviews available; please call 0203 750 2031
    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 required to en

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