Great Northern

Train stations renamed for Halloween

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Alex Bestwick

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1st November 2023

A number of railway stations across the UK were given a Halloween twist on Tuesday.
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More rail workers to be balloted for strikes

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Alex Bestwick

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8th September 2022

More rail workers will be balloted for strikes amid increasing industrial unrest across the country.
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Transport company Go-Ahead suffers cyber attack

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Alex Bestwick

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6th September 2022

The company behind train operator Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has fallen victim to a cyber attack.
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July start for King’s Cross ‘throat’ remodelling work

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Sam Hewitt

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1st July 2019

WEEKEND part-closures on July 13-14 and August 24-26 will mark the start of Network Rail’s £237million scheme to renew and remodel the station throat at London King’s Cross. Over the coming months, life-expired trackwork, overhead line equipment (OHLE) and signalling, dating from the last remodelling in the 1970s, will gradually be replaced over the first…
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All change on the Great Northern

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Sam Hewitt

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6th March 2019

eter Brown takes a ride on the new Class 717 EMUs, which over the next few months will transform Great Northern services.
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THE KING’S CROSS STORY 200 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE RAILWAY LANDS

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Sam Hewitt

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18th February 2019

By Peter Darley THIS is a superb book. Peter Darley tells the story of the Great Northern’s King’s Cross station and the extensive nearby ‘Railway Lands’ during the last 200 years. The term Railway Lands refers to such things as associated stations, numerous goods depots, potato markets, locomotive sheds and works, coal yards, coal drops…
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First Siemens Class 717 makes Moorgate debut

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd December 2018

THE first Class 717 destined for service on the Great Northern to Moorgate made an impromptu one-off preview service on September 28 from Moorgate to Gordon Hill. The ‘717’ is based on the Class 700 built by Siemens. The lease for the first unit – No. 717007 – had been signed the previous day. Govia Thameslink…
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