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The chief executive of GTR, parent company of Southern, has this morning invited the RMT union for face-to-face talks next week to try and settle their dispute.
Fares on Thameslink and Great Northern will rise by an average of 1.8% next year, in line with the annual increase of other train operators, but the good news is they will benefit from an enhanced compensation scheme for delays.
Southern Railway has announced it will restore 63 more services to the timetable, including the full West London Line timetable and 34 West Coastway services to destinations such as Hove, Bognor, Barnham and Worthing next Monday (October 24).
On the eve of another damaging three-day strike by the RMT on Southern, Govia Thameslink Railway has called on the union to suspend strikes and hold a referendum of its members to allow them to decide for themselves whether they want to accept its 8-point offer plus £2,000 lump sum per person which is back on the table.
“Clearly this a long and complex report, which we’ve only just received and we now need time to study its detailed contents."
Commenting on the outcome of today’s talks with the RMT, Charles Horton, chief executive of GTR, said: "Yesterday, the RMT leadership asked to meet with me and I cleared my diary this morning to listen to what they had to say."
Southern’s chief executive Charles Horton has this afternoon offered to meet RMT general secretary Mick Cash tomorrow for face-to-face talks to try and find a solution to end their six-months dispute
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), the parent company of Southern Railway, has confirmed it will press ahead with its proposals to modernise its services after the RMT rejected its offer to settle the six-month-old dispute and today’s talks ended without success.
ustomers of Southern Railway today received some much-needed good news with the announcement that the train operator will reinstate 119 train services back into its timetable next Monday (5th September).
Management of Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), the parent company of Southern Trains, today invited the RMT to fresh talks "any time, any place, anywhere" to end the strike action which is causing travel misery for hundreds of thousands of commuters this week.
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