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Govia wins Thameslink contract despite £24m Southeastern fine

Rail company Govia will continue to run the Thameslink franchise for the next three years despite being handed a multi-million pound fine for how it ran a separate franchise. The business will pocket a management fee of £8.8 million per year to ...

25 Mar 2022 at 09:25

Train cancellations hit record high

Train reliability in Britain reached the worst level on record after another month of disruption. The industry’s cancellations score during the 12 months to October 15 was 3.8%, according to Office of Rail and Road data. That was the poorest ...

21 Nov 2022 at 16:46

Talks between rail operator and council fail ahead of Brighton Pride weekend

Talks between a rail operator and a council about its decision not to run trains to a city hosting a Pride festival have broken down. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) blamed an overtime ban by the drivers’ union Aslef for its announcement ...

03 Aug 2023 at 15:53

Driver killed by passing train ‘may have left cab to urinate or smoke cigarette’

A train driver struck and killed by a passing train may have left his cab to urinate or smoke a cigarette, an investigation has found. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said Michal Olesiak died on February 1 last year while ...

16 Feb 2023 at 16:00

Cut-price train tickets to lure commuters back on Mondays and Fridays

Britain’s biggest train company is offering cheaper tickets to encourage more commuters to return to offices on Mondays and Fridays. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) said it has started selling Advance tickets for travel on some of its ...

16 Feb 2023 at 00:01

Passengers face ‘crisis’ on railways as cancellations hit new high

Train reliability across Britain reached the worst level on record in recent weeks, with Avanti West Coast cancelling the equivalent of about one in five services. Analysis of Office of Rail and Road (ORR) data by the PA news agency ...

23 Jan 2023 at 14:46

Train stations given spooky names to mark Halloween

Rail passengers across the UK may have noticed something eerie during their journey as a number of stations were renamed with a Halloween twist. Those travelling with Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern railways would have ...

31 Oct 2023 at 18:40

City

Transport company Go-Ahead suffers cyber attack

One of the UK’s biggest bus companies has fallen victim to a cyber attack. Go-Ahead Group announced that it is “managing a cyber security incident” after “unauthorised activity” was detected on its network on Monday. The ...

06 Sept 2022 at 09:35

Rail fares cap will save passengers up to £124 a week, says train firm

Britain’s largest train company has launched automatic weekly fares capping, claiming the move will save some passengers up to £124 a week. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) said it has introduced the measure for the 30,...

23 May 2024 at 14:58

Life

The Children’s Laureate on why reading and writing poetry is great for kids

Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry. However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and dads to not only read ...

05 Apr 2024 at 08:15

Britain’s biggest train firm warns of disruption due to ‘widespread IT issues’

Britain’s biggest train company has warned passengers to expect disruption due to “widespread IT issues”. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) – parent company of Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great ...

26 Jul 2024 at 09:15

Airports and rail firms affected as IT outage causes transport chaos

UK transport networks have been thrown into chaos by the global IT outage. There are long queues at airports, while trains are also disrupted because of the problem. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said ...

25 Apr 2025 at 11:55

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