Thameslink stations and partners shortlisted for community awards
Thameslink’s Elstree & Borehamwood and Cricklewood stations have been shortlisted for the “It's Your Station” category of the Association of Community Rail (ACORP) Awards.
Thameslink’s Elstree & Borehamwood and Cricklewood stations have been shortlisted for the “It's Your Station” category of the Association of Community Rail (ACORP) Awards.
Nine young unemployed people from Stevenage, Hertford, St Albans and Luton have secured roles with Great Northern, following their successful completion of a ‘Get Into Railways’ employability programme run by the train company and youth charity The Prince’s Trust.
Southern Railway today continued to deliver on its promise to restore train services by announcing it would be reinstating the full timetable from Tonbridge and Reigate to Redhill and London Victoria/London Bridge next Monday (19 September). This will also see the full service between Redhill and London restored.
Southern has released details of the service it plans to run during the RMT’s planned two-day strike this week (September 7 and 8). This latest industrial action from the RMT takes place the same week that Southern reinstates over a third of the train services that had earlier been removed from its timetable.
Thameslink’s Mike Tyler, Revenue Control Officer based at St Albans, and Great Northern’s Hatfield station have been shortlisted for the National Transport awards. The awards celebrate the successes that have been achieved on national and local transport projects, as well as the individuals who go above and beyond the call of duty.
Great Northern and Thameslink have beefed up their security at stations and on-board rail services by introducing a team of 22 rail enforcement officers (REOs) with almost as many Special Constables working across the entire Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) network that also includes Southern and Gatwick Express.
GTR, owner of Southern Trains, has urged the RMT to call off their planned 2-day strike (planned for September 7 and 8) and get back round the table to find a solution to their “futile” industrial action.
Responding to the RMT’s strike by Station staff on 7 September, Alex Foulds, GTR’s Passenger Services Director, said: “This is a cynical and deliberate stunt by the RMT to try and bring our trains to a standstill by co-ordinating strike action on two fronts on the same day to cause maximum disruption, delay and damage to our passengers’ everyday lives and the economy."
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