Categories: aslef

  • Statement on ASLEF agreement

    The Aslef executive has endorsed proposals negotiated to resolve the dispute that has been affecting Southern and Gatwick Express

  • ASLEF dispute update

    ​Further discussions between ASLEF and GTR have taken place

  • GTR's plans to support Brighton and Hove Pride

    Govia Thameslink Railway will be running longer Thameslink trains to and from Brighton during next month's renowned Pride celebrations, but the event will still be affected by the ASLEF drivers’ strike on Southern.

  • GTR response to ORR DOO report

    “The independent rail regulator carried out a full and comprehensive review, including a thorough risk assessment, of our plans to implement driver-controlled trains on new routes on the Southern network. We warmly welcome their robust report which confirms that our roll-out programme is safe."

  • Southern response to ASLEF announcement

    Responding to ASLEF's announcement this morning, a Southern spokesperson said: “This is a cynical ploy to minimise the impact on ASLEF’s drivers’ pay packets and maximises misery, disruption and hardship for passengers."

  • Southern/ASLEF: Acas talks end with no deal

    Commenting on Southern/ASLEF talks at Acas, Nick Brown, Chief Operating Officer of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), Southern's parent company, said: "We're deeply disappointed, as our passengers will be, that ASLEF has been unable to accept our proposals and that we cannot find a way forward to end this dispute with the drivers' union at this stage."

  • ​SEVERE DISRUPTION TOMORROW, WARNS SOUTHERN TRAINS

    Passengers on Southern and Gatwick Express have been warned to expect services to be severely disrupted tomorrow, Thursday 15 December, following today’s drivers’ strike and the ASLEF union’s on-going refusal to allow drivers to work overtime.

  • ​Please don't travel, Southern warns train passengers

    Southern Railway today advised the travelling public not to travel tomorrow, irrespective of the outcome of today's Court of Appeal hearing to try and obtain an injunction against the drivers' strikes, set to begin at midnight.

  • ​GTR to appeal injunction refusal

    GTR, parent company of Southern Railway, has confirmed it has lodged an urgent application at the Court of Appeal against the High Court decision on 8 December refusing an injunction to prevent industrial action by ASLEF.

  • Southern warns of reduced service across network tomorrow, Friday

    Passengers on Southern and Gatwick Express have been warned again to expect services to be severely reduced across much of the network on non-strike days from tomorrow (Friday), through the weekend and on Monday as a result of ASLEF’s continued overtime ban.

  • ​Press statement - GTR vs ASLEF legal action

    Responding to the High Court's ruling today on an application for an injunction to stop ASLEF industrial action, Nick Brown, Chief Operating Officer of Govia Thameslink Railway, said: "Naturally we are disappointed. The judge said that such unprecedented strike action by ASLEF would cause massive disruption to the public."

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