Image -
With a month to go, passengers urged to check details
- Curtain-raiser for Thameslink trains to run from scores more stations direct to central London and beyond - Extra capacity for 40,000 more passengers in May - Journey times to be cut for thousands of commuters
From midnight on Thursday night, 24 September, access to and from Elephant & Castle railway station via the link bridge and shopping centre will close for five years.
The change is necessary as part of the Elephant and Castle town centre development. When the entrance reopens, there will be improved level access into the station.
Thameslink services will continue to operate as normal at
Embargoed to 6am Wednesday 16 May
Govia Thameslink Railway today announced a significant boost to services as part of its RailPlan 20/20 programme with almost 400 or 13% more trains running every day when its new timetable is introduced next week.
GTR, Britain’s biggest rail operator, will start to run around 3,600 trains – one every 24 seconds – across its network in a step forward for its
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
Taking the train on business with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is up to 12 times better for the environment than driving, according to analysis by the Rail Delivery Group.
Journeys between London and 10 stations across the GTR network (Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink) reveal a startling saving on carbon emissions compared with a car:
Between the following stations
Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and Siemens have scored a world-first by running ATO (Automatic Train Operation) over ETCS (European Train Control System) on the mainline railway in passenger service
Priority to maintain safe and reliable service
Passengers urged to check online as changes publicised
Train times on Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink will change from Monday 22 February as Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) introduces a new, reduced weekday timetable, which better matches current demand and times when key workers and others make essential journeys.
The new timetable fo
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
Passengers should only travel if absolutely necessary on Gatwick Express, Southern, Great Northern and Thameslink during next week’s strike by RMT members of Network Rail and other train operators
Govia Thameslink Railway, the UK’s largest rail operator, has today announced that John Whitehurst has been appointed as its Chief Operating Officer and will begin the role on Monday 20 May.
The Go-Ahead Group today announces that the Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded a National Rail Contract (NRC) to Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) to continue operating the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern rail services, the UK’s largest railway network
United Kingdom
