Govia Thameslink Railway

**Govia Thameslink Railway** is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. They operate the Thameslink, Great Northern, Southern, and Gatwick Express brands.

### Thameslink services

|width="250px"|Route||||Calling at|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|to|2|||||
|Bedford to Three Bridges via Redhill|2|* In the evening, this service only runs between Luton and Three Bridges||||
|to  via Redhill|2|||||
|Cambridge to|2|||||
|London Blackfriars to  via Catford and Otford|2|||||
|Luton to  via Greenwich|2|* In the evening, this service only runs between Kentish Town and Rainham||||
|St Albans City to  via  (loop)|2|*Services then continue to/from St Albans City via Mitcham Junction (see below)||||
|St Albans City to Sutton via  (loop)|2|*Services then continue to/from St Albans City via Wimbledon (see above)||||

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### Great Northern services

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The Great Northern services as of June 2024 are:

|width="250px"|**Route**||****||**Calling at**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|to|1|||||
|London King's Cross to|1|||||
|London King's Cross to Letchworth Garden City|1|Finsbury Park, Alexandra Palace, Potters Bar, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn North, Knebworth, Stevenage, Hitchin||||
|London King's Cross to Cambridge|1|Finsbury Park, Alexandra Palace, Potters Bar, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn North, Knebworth, Stevenage, Hitchin, Letchworth Garden City, Baldock, Royston, Meldreth, Shepreth, Foxton||||
|to Welwyn Garden City|2|||||
|Moorgate to Stevenage via|2|||||
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## Southern and Gatwick Express services

As of May 2023, the Monday-Saturday services are:
|Route||||Calling at|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|–|2|,|||
On Sundays, Gatwick Express operates a half-hourly shuttle service between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport only.

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### Southern services

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The services as of June 2024 are:

|colspan="3"|Brighton Main Line||
| --- | --- | --- |
|–|2||
|London Victoria –|1||
|London Victoria –|1||
|London Victoria –  via Crawley|2|*This route splits/merges at Horsham with the route to  (see below). Fishbourne, Bosham, Nutbourne and Warblington are served by the same train|
|London Victoria –  via Crawley|2|*This route splits/merges at Horsham with the route to , see above.|
|–|2|* Services alternate between serving Southease and Newhaven Harbour|
|Brighton –|1||
|Brighton –|1||
|Eastbourne –|1||
|Brighton –|2||
|Brighton – Portsmouth & Southsea|1||
|Brighton to Chichester via Littlehampton|1||
|Barnham – Bognor Regis|2|_Shuttle service_|
|–|1||
|–|1||
|–|2||
|Redhill –|1||
|–|1|*2tpd starts/terminates at *1tpd starts/terminates at|
|–  via Carshalton|1||
|London Victoria –  via Carshalton|1||
|London Victoria –  via Norbury|2||
|– Epsom|2||
|London Bridge –|2|*This route splits/merges at Purley with the route to , see below.|
|London Bridge –|2|*This route splits/merges at Purley with the route to , see above.|
|–  via Crystal Palace|2||
|London Victoria –  via Crystal Palace|2||
|London Bridge –  via Tulse Hill|2||
|London Bridge –  via Tulse Hill and Crystal Palace|2||
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### Current fleet

|rowspan="2"|Family|rowspan="2"|Class|rowspan="2"|Image|rowspan="2"|Type|colspan="2"|Top speed|rowspan="2"|Number|rowspan="2"|Carriages|rowspan="2"|Routes operated|rowspan="2"|Built|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Bombardier Turbostar|171/2|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|DMU|rowspan="9"|100|rowspan="9"|160|1|rowspan="2" align="center"|3|rowspan="3"|Brighton Main Line (London Bridge to South Croydon) Oxted line (to Uckfield only) East Coastway line Marshlink line|rowspan="3"||
|171/7|12|||||||||||||||||
|171/8|4|align="center"|2|||||||||||||||
|rowspan="7"|Bombardier Electrostar|rowspan="1"|377/1|rowspan="6"||rowspan="7"|EMU|64|rowspan="2" align="center"|4|rowspan="6"|Entire Southern network apart from sections between Hurst Green and Uckfield & between Ore and Ashford International|rowspan="6"|200105||||
|rowspan="1"|377/2|15||||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1"|377/3|28|align="center"|3||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1"|377/4|75|align="center"|4||||||||||||||
|rowspan="1"|377/6|26|rowspan="2" align="center"|5||||||||||||||
|377/7|8|||||||||||||||||
|387/2||110|177|5 (Varies)|align="center"|4|**Units borrowed from Gatwick Express on a rotational basis according to demand.** Brighton Main Line East Coastway line West Coastway line (Brighton to Southampton Central)|201617||||||||||
|Bombardier Electrostar|387||EMU|110|177|22|4|Gatwick Express services between London Victoria & Brighton|20152016|||||||||
|Bombardier Electrostar|387||rowspan="2"|EMU|110|177|38|4|Great Northern express services between London King's Cross & Ely / King's Lynn / Peterborough and Great Northern semi-fast services between London King's Cross & Letchworth Garden City / Cambridge|20142017||||||||
|Siemens Desiro|717 _Desiro City_||85|137|25|6|Northern City Line services between Moorgate & Welwyn Garden City / Stevenage via Hertford North|2018||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Siemens Desiro|rowspan="2"|700 _Desiro City_|rowspan="2" align="center"||rowspan="2"|EMU|rowspan="2"|100|rowspan="2"|161|60|8|rowspan="2"|All Thameslink services|rowspan="2"|20152018|
|55|12|||||||||||||||||

### Future fleet

On 12 March 2024 it was announced that Great Northern would lease the full 30-unit fleet of Class 379 units.

|rowspan="2"|Family|rowspan="2"|Class|rowspan="2"|Image|rowspan="2"|Type|colspan="2"|Top speed|rowspan="2"|Number|rowspan="2"|Carriages|rowspan="2"|Route(s) to be operated|rowspan="2"|Built|rowspan="2"|In service|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Bombardier Electrostar|379|style="text-align:center;"||EMU|style="text-align:center;"|100|style="text-align:center;"|160|style="text-align:center;"|30|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|TBC|style="text-align:center;"|20102011|style="text-align:center;"|Late 2024||

### Past fleet

Former units operated by Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern include:
|rowspan="2"|Class|rowspan="2"|Image|rowspan="2"|Type|colspan="2"|Top speed|rowspan="2"|Carriages|rowspan="2"|Number|rowspan="2"|Built|rowspan="2"|Routes|rowspan="2"|Withdrawn|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|365 _Networker Express_|align="center"||rowspan="6" align="center"|EMU|align="center"|100|align="center"|161|align="center"|4|align="center"|40|align="center"|1994-95|Express services between London King's Cross and / Ely / King's Lynn / Peterborough|align="center"|20182021|
||align="center"||align="center"|75|align="center"|121|align="center"|3|align="center"|64|align="center"|19761977|Northern City Line West Coastway line East Coastway line Seaford branch line|align="center"|2019 (Great Northern) 2023 (Southern)|||
||align="center"||align="center"|100|align="center"|161|align="center"|4|align="center"|86|align="center"||All Thameslink services|align="center"|20152017|||
|||rowspan="2" align="center"|100|rowspan="2" align="center"|161|rowspan="2" align="center"|4|align="center"|13|align="center"|19891990|Express services between London King's Cross  to Peterborough and Cambridge|align="center"|2016||||
|377 _Electrostar_|align="center"||align="center"|26|align="center"|20082009|Some Thameslink services|align="center"|2017|||||||||
|455|align="center"||align="center"|75|align="center"|120|align="center"|4|align="center"|46|align="center"|19821984|Metro and commuter services from London Victoria & London Bridge|align="center"|2022|||
|171||align="center"|DMU|align="center"|100|align="center"|161|align="center"|4|align="center"|3|align="center"|2003-2004|Oxted line Marshlink line|align="center"|2022||

## Other websites

- Thameslink website
- Great Northern website
- Southern website
- Gatwick Express website

## Infobox (rail company)

- **name**: Govia Thameslink Railway
- **image filename**: 700019 Shepreth Branch Junc 210619.jpg
- **caption**: A Thameslink British Rail Class 700, Class 700 at Shepreth Branch Junction, south of Cambridge in 2019
- **nameforarea**: region
- **stationsop**: 238
- **abbr**: GN, GX, SN, TL