Southern and Thameslink passengers are being advised to avoid using London Bridge this evening after another hole was found underneath the railway tracks at Forest Hill. This means that capacity into London Bridge is severely reduced while Network Rail works to make repairs, with many services diverted, starting/terminating short of their destinations or cancelled.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has become the UK’s first train operator to put its front line staff through Team Insight training, to teach them how to best assist visually impaired people travelling on their service.
Talks between Govia Thameslink Railway and the RMT over the change in role of conductors on Southern services are continuing at Acas.
The TSSA union has announced that it is to ballot GTR ticket office staff over our plans to improve the customer experience at 83 of our stations.
Southern has released details of the service it plans to run if the RMT’s five day conductors’ strike next week goes ahead. Talks are planned at Acas tomorrow, Wednesday and Southern says the RMT must call off the action by Thursday if it is to avoid a strike timetable on Monday.
Members of the Brighter Uckfield group recently came together with Southern, and Sussex Community Rail Partnership (SCRP), to celebrate the group formally becoming station partner for Uckfield and adopting the station.
Great Northern has helped support Cambridge based charity Red Balloon inspire youngsters in creative writing.
Members of Hitchin Priory Rotary Club, the Inner Wheel Club and Great Northern railway came together on Tuesday to celebrate the adoption of the station.
Govia Thameslink Railway has asked Acas, the advisory, conciliation and arbitration service, to facilitate talks with the RMT and is calling on the union to call off its damaging five-day strike by conductors timed to start on 8 August.
A Thameslink train that appears in the Department for Transport's crowded trains list for 2015 was lengthened by 50% a few months later. And on the metro route, which can accommodate only eight-carriage services and has two trains in the crowded list, new trains with 40% more capacity will begin running later this year.
In response to news by the RMT that its conductor members are to strike between 0001 on Monday 8 August and 2359 on Friday 12 August, Govia Thameslink Railway Chief Operating Officer Dyan Crowther said:
• Station modernisation plans would improve customer service • All staff affected have been offered a pay rise or additional allowance
