Seventy years after the Hatfield and St Albans Railway carried its last passenger, Hertfordshire rail heritage enthusiasts are staging an exhibition at Hatfield station about the former Great Northern Railway (GNR) branch line.
The Smallford Station and Alban Way Heritage Society have taken over the window display at a vacant shop unit in the station. On show is a selection from the wealth of h
Rail firm partners with celebrity nutritionist to offer top tips and bust myths about drinking, to help passengers get home safely after a night out.
Research shows we’re starting festivities earlier and planning to enjoy more celebrations to make up for them being cancelled last year
Intoxication is the second biggest cause of accidents on the railway
Nutritionist Rob Hobson shares his top
Services will change with extra trains on some routes of Great Northern and Thameslink (north of London) from Sunday 12 December 2021 as Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) introduces its winter 2021/2022 timetable
Train times at Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink will change from Sunday 12 December 2021 as Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) starts to introduce an updated winter 2021/2022 timetable
By January 2022, 179 charging points across 37 stations will be available for public use
Second wave follows the-then biggest installation on the UK rail network in 2020 at Hatfield
The roll-out of Electronic Vehicle (EV) infrastructure is well underway on the Thameslink, Great Northern and Southern railway network, with new charging points and parking bays added to the next wave of stations.
The Northern City Line to Moorgate will be closed for signalling improvements on three weekends and at Christmas
A local artist has created a new work inspired by the iconic Campbell’s soup tin especially for Great Northern passengers at King’s Lynn station.
Steve Messam’s re-imagining of Andy Warhol’s famous image highlights Lynn’s claim to fame as the home of the Campbell company’s first factory outside the USA, built in 1959.
Steve was commissioned by environment and community charity Groundwork Eas
GTR installs over 200 works of community art across the Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern network
professional, student and hobby artists create paintings, mosaics and sculptures for 40 stations in eight counties
station ambience improvement programme also includes 90 landscaping projects and 50 redecoration schemes
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has put over 200 works of community art
Passengers are being urged to plan ahead of vital engineering work that will greatly reduce rail services between Cambridge and London on 11 and 12 December.
Govia Thameslink Railway is finishing a major upgrade to Cambridge’s train depot, creating servicing facilities and stabling (parking between turns of duty) for the new fleets of Thameslink, Great Northern and Greater Anglia trains
Potters Bar lifesaver, Welwyn Garden City resident and London British Heart Foundation nurse promote Restart A Heart Day
Biggest roll-out on UK rail network
Part of £15m station improvement programme
On the eve of Restart A Heart Day (16 October), Great Northern, Thameslink and Southern have announced they will shortly have publicly-accessible, life-saving automated external defibrillators (
Biggest roll-out on UK rail network
Part of £15m station improvement programme
On the eve of Restart A Heart Day (16 October), Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink have announced they will shortly have publicly-accessible, life-saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at every one of their 238 stations (full list here), the largest roll-out of heart restarters on the UK’s rail netwo
The number of 2022 apprenticeships on offer at the companies will rise by 25%
The number of apprenticeships on offer across rail firms Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express will increase by a quarter in 2022, with 250 programmes available across departments, including engineering, customer services, train driving and administration.
The rail operator’s apprenticeship progr
