Passengers with Southern, Great Northern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express can surf the web, tweet and browse Facebook to their hearts’ content at 105 stations, which have all been fitted with free unlimited Wi-Fi.
Passengers with Southern, Great Northern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express can surf the web, tweet and browse Facebook to their hearts’ content at 105 stations, which have all been fitted with free unlimited Wi-Fi.
In response to the RMT's announcement that it has moved the date of the conductors' strike from Friday 20 May to Wednesday 18 May, a spokesperson for Southern said:
A 10-year-old schoolgirl has re-recorded one of the most repeated railway station safety announcements in a bid to increase security on Britain’s biggest train company
Passengers travelling with Southern are being urged to check before they travel from today because of a significant number of cancellations due to a lack of available conductors.
New information screens with ‘at-a-glance’ journey details are being fitted to Thameslink stations in central London in preparation for a new generation of train and a future high intensity service.
In response to news that the RMT has postponed next week’s strike by its conductor members on Southern rail services, a spokesperson for Southern said:
Passengers travelling with Southern between Brighton and Southampton are being urged to check before they travel from 4 May and for what is likely to be the rest of the week because of a significant number of cancellations due to a lack of available conductors.
We expected to have serious constructive talks but sadly the RMT was not prepared to discuss details of the new role.
We are pleased that the Court has granted us an injunction that ASLEF must not induce our drivers to refuse to operate the new 12 car trains.
Network Rail’s engineering work this May Day Bank Holiday weekend (30 April to 02 May) is concentrated in south London, as a project to improve signalling takes place on the Brighton Main Line in the Streatham area.
You may have heard that following the ballot of its Southern conductor members, the RMT union has announced that it intends to hold three 24-hour strikes.
