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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

Rail passengers to be hit with disruption on Saturday as workers strike

Train passengers are set to be hit with disruption on Saturday as thousands of workers strike. People have been warned to check before using rail services across the country, because trains will start later and finish much earlier than ...

29 Jul 2023 at 00:01

Rail passengers to face more disruption amid train drivers’ overtime ban

Rail services will be disrupted again this week because of a ban on overtime by train drivers as part of a campaign of action in a long-running dispute over pay. Members of Aslef at 15 train companies in England will refuse to work ...

30 Jul 2023 at 11:16

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 ...

03 Aug 2023 at 15:53

Rail services hit as train drivers walk out for third strike in four days

Trains on some of the busiest routes in the country were at a standstill on Monday because of another strike by drivers in their long-running pay dispute. Commuters on services into London were among passengers suffering ...

08 Apr 2024 at 02:45

Commuter routes to be hit by train drivers’ strike

Rail passengers on some of the country’s busiest commuter routes will suffer travel chaos on Monday because of a strike by train drivers in a long-running pay dispute. Members of Aslef will walk out for the third strike ...

08 Apr 2024 at 00:01

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

23 Jan 2023 at 14:46

Fresh train drivers’ strike leaves many areas with no services

Fresh train drivers’ strike means no services in many areas

Large parts of the country have no train services because of a fresh strike by drivers in a long-running pay dispute. Members of Aslef at Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, West Midlands ...

05 Apr 2024 at 12:39

Signalling fault sparks major rail disruption

Rail commuters suffered major disruption on Monday morning due to a widespread signalling failure. Thameslink, Southern and Gatwick Express, which operate in south-east England, said shortly before 4am that ...

26 Feb 2024 at 12:27

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