Regions: Huntingdon and Peterborough

From left: Siemens Mobility's Rob Morris, MD Rail Infrastructure, & Sambit Banerjee, MD Rolling Stock & Customer Services; Ed Akers, NR Principal Programme Sponsor, ECDP; GTR's Aaron Meakin, ERTMS Fleet PM & Steve Lammin, Engineering Director

21 June 2023 09:30

Thameslink fleet set for additional digital upgrade

Industry partners in the transformational East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) have signed a £32.7million contract to upgrade the Class 700 Thameslink fleet to the latest specification of European Train Control System

TAG Bikes Employment Skills Worker Robert Bierton (right) and members of the workshop take delivery of abandoned station bikes from GTR distribution manager Sarah Collett (far right)

1 February 2018 14:56

GTR’s abandoned station bikes transform lives for adults with learning difficulties

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is using bikes abandoned at its railway stations to help people with learning difficulties acquire new skills and build their independence.
The company gave TAG Bikes workshop, based in Huntingdon Community Centre, just under 50 bikes left at stations on the Thameslink and Great Northern routes after its distribution manager heard they’d put out an appeal in the l