The vast majority of the rail network across Kent and Sussex is open for business this August bank holiday weekend, but passengers are asked to plan ahead and check before they travel as some journeys may be longer as a result of essential upgrade work.
Passengers travelling between Redhill and Tonbridge are being reminded to plan their journeys ahead of time and leave more time to travel as the line closes for ten days, beginning next week, on Saturday 16 August.
Passengers of Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink are being encouraged to put forward what they consider to be the most life-changing local station for national recognition in the World Cup of Stations 2025
Network Rail is to fit special beams to a bridge carrying one of Britain’s busiest main line rail routes, to provide protection from lorries and other HGVs that crash into it
Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, folk ‘legend’ Richard Thompson OBE has written a song about Thameslink’s oldest employee, 85-year-old Elstree & Borehamwood station assistant Siggy Cragwell BEM. It is being aired on national radio this week
Families are being urged to visit the Bluebell Railway to see a special exhibition train celebrating 200 years of the modern railway
A closure of the railway in August means that rail replacement buses will operate over the whole route so that Network Rail can undertake essential engineering work.
Proposals for a new community hub in a disused part of Crowborough station have moved to the next stage as the public were invited to see plans for the first time.
Sunseekers, holidaymakers and motorsport fans are being advised to plan their weekend journeys in advance as urgent engineering work means all lines between East Croydon and Gatwick Airport are closed.
Historians have uncovered the story of a devastating attack in Sussex which resulted in the first death of a train driver in WW2.
Essential and urgent engineering work on the Brighton Main Line north of Gatwick Airport means that passengers need to plan ahead and check before they travel.
Southern Rail’s driver training apprenticeship school has ‘outstanding behaviours and attitudes’, says Ofsted
The country’s largest train operator has given its old railway station benches a new lease of life at a care home for former newspaper industry workers.
Passengers in south London are being reminded that the lifts at Sutton station will be taken out of use for renewal, from this Monday, 16 June, until the end of September
Network Rail will undertake work to strengthen the railway embankment near Edenbridge, with buses replacing trains along the route.
Community organisations across London and Surrey have been handed their share of almost half a million pounds from a fund set up by the country’s largest train operator.
Community organisations across the south east have been handed their share of almost half a million pounds from a fund set up by the country’s largest train operator.
Community organisations across the south east have been handed their share of almost half a million pounds from a fund set up by the country’s largest train operator.
Network Rail is replacing the unreliable lifts at Sutton station which means there will be no step-free access at the station until the end of September 2025
Some £1.7 million has been allocated to improve stations across the country’s largest railway network – following a bumper year of projects at stations across London and the south east.
