Tag Archives: Govia Thameslink

#RailRevolution: activists join forces to protest 3% fare rise

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

Sick of rising rail fares and chaotic commuting? Tired of the endless tinkering with our broken privatised railway system? On Wednesday, just as rail fares across the country go up by an inflation-busting 3.1 per cent – following 12 months … Continue reading →

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Southern could have acted to avoid £2 cash machine charges

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

Southern Rail, possibly the world’s least popular train operators, could have taken steps to ensure that their passengers would not be subject to £2 transaction charges at the cash machines by East Croydon and other stations – but they chose … Continue reading →

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Rail timetable taking the ‘freedom’ out of Freedom Passes

Posted on July 24, 2018 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: Just managing to get to a routine hospital appointment feels ‘like I am planning a military campaign’ for MARGARET LEE, right, under Southern and Thameslink’s new timetable I have just read your article, Freedom Pass users left to … Continue reading →

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Govia refuse to attend scrutiny meeting to discuss rail chaos

Posted on June 26, 2018 by

The chair of Croydon Council’s scrutiny committee has expressed his “strong disappointment” to Govia Thameslink Railway at their failure to send anyone to tonight’s Town Hall meeting that is to look at the chaos affecting tens of thousands of Croydon … Continue reading →

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MP Jones’s letter on rail chaos increases pressure on Grayling

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

MPs from commuter constituencies across southern England are demanding action from the Transport Secretary. But Croydon South’s Chris Philp is not among them, as JEREMY CLACKSON reports Calls for the resignation of the Transport Secretary and for Govia Thameslink to … Continue reading →

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It’s Meltdown Monday as Southern’s new train timetable bites

Posted on May 21, 2018 by

Entirely predictably, Govia Thameslink, the operators in charge of Southern train services, have caused complete chaos with their new timetable, as our transport correspondent JEREMY CLACKSON reports No one needed to study the works of Nostradamus to predict the train … Continue reading →

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Freedom Pass-users left to wait by Southern’s new timetable

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

JEREMY CLACKSON, our transport correspondent, on the emerging problems of ‘clustering’ of rail services under Southern and Thameslink’s new timetable, which is due to begin – as long as there are no delays – on Sunday At Victoria Station this … Continue reading →

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