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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
Govia Thameslink Railway is temporarily sub leasing six of its Gatwick Express Class 387/2 units to Great Western Railway to help provide extra resilience and additional capacity where most needed
Thameslink and Siemens Mobility are this month celebrating five years of passenger service of their state-of-the-art ‘people mover’ Desiro City Class 700 train. The 115-strong fleet has travelled over 58 million miles – nearly halfway to Mars – since June 2016
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Train enthusiasts joined commuters on Friday (14 May) to ride the last Great Northern Class 365 train out of King’s Cross, after 25 years of service.
The 18:12 farewell service, lengthened from eight to 12 carriages for the special journey, called at Stevenage, Biggleswade, St Neots and Huntingdon on its way to
High-resolution images from stations including Cambridge, King's Lynn, Waterbeach and Littleport are available to download below
Great Northern and Network Rail today (Friday 11 December) gave passengers on the Fen Line between Cambridge and King’s Lynn a taste of the new twice-longer eight-carriage service that will boost space and seats on trains from Sunday (13 December).
The first all-st
UK’s oldest electric carriages replaced, giving passengers to Moorgate modern trains with air-conditioning and Wi-Fi
Rolling stock cascade thought to be UK’s biggest
Govia Thameslink Railway today unveiled a special edition train emblazoned with a rainbow livery ahead of the upcoming Brighton & Hove Pride
Rail provider Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has confirmed plans for extra Saturday train services to help visitors to the city get home from Brighton & Hove Pride 2019 weekend
For the first time in 40 years, passengers are riding on new trains in the tunnels to London Moorgate, as Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) begins to replace mainland Britain’s oldest electric rail fleet
Great Northern have given passengers on its suburban route a sneak preview of their new £240 million air-conditioned train fleet
A £200 million fleet of brand new trains for Great Northern services between Hertfordshire and Moorgate has passed an important milestone with over half of the 150 carriages now manufactured.
Services will run at Tube-like frequencies thanks to new technology
12 routes to cross London, speeding up journeys
Helps boost capacity by 60,000 passengers in 2019
MONDAY, 23 MARCH 2018: Govia Thameslink Railway passengers have ridden the UK’s first self-drive mainline train in a major milestone for the industry.
The Thameslink trains will in future use the technology, developed by Siem
This is the moment GTR’s first Thameslink train, on a test run, makes history as it pulls into the newly-built platform 5 at London Bridge on New Year's Day.
Direct services to new central London stations and Gatwick from May Increasingly thousands more peak hour seats – from May
All the trains across Thameslink’s entire network are now new Class 700s. Passengers travelling between London Bridge, Gatwick Airport and Brighton now have brand new Thameslink trains that are up to three times longer giving more space and more seats.
Great Northern, run by Govia Thameslink Railway, today replaced all the trains between King's Lynn and Cambridge with modern, air-conditioned carriages, just in time for summer
Modern air-conditioned trains due to be fitted with Wi-Fi are set to breeze onto Great Northern's King's Lynn-Cambridge Fen Line route when the train operator, part of Govia Thameslink Railway, launches its new timetable on 21 May, it was announced today.
Air-conditioned trains will be breezing onto the Great Northern route for the first time ever next month, as the rail firm gives passengers cooler, more comfortable journeys between the capital and Peterborough and Cambridge.
Southern is adding more services to the revised timetable it introduced on Monday to reduce delays and provide improved capacity on the busiest routes. These include more trains on the Tulse Hill, Peckham Rye route, the Mole Valley route between Dorking and Epsom and a train to and from Seaford and also to and from Lewes.