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31 Jul 2024Thanet Parkway celebrates its first birthday!
- The station provides highspeed and Main Line services to central London and Kent and is designed to be a catalyst for future investment and growth
- Since opening, around 91,000 journeys have been made to or from the station
- To mark the occasion, Southeastern and Network Rail staff gathered to enjoy a slice of birthday cake
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30 Jul 2024Southeastern recognised as one of the UK's top apprenticeship employers
- Southeastern ranked 58th on the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer List
- More than 620 people have completed apprenticeships in six years
- Biggest ever recruitment drive continues with plans to recruit more than 400 more apprentices this year
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24 Jul 2024Southeastern provides local tourism boost with extra trains this summer
- Direct services between south-east London and the north Kent coast throughout the summer holidays
- Extra carriages to provide more capacity to coastal towns in Kent and East Sussex
- Beat the traffic and travel in a more environmentally sustainable way by leaving the car at home
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01 Jul 2024Southeastern seeks to expand membership of its Accessible Travel Advisory Panel
- The panel is made up of people of different ages and backgrounds who live or work on the Southeastern network
- All have lived experience of the challenges that can be faced when travelling by train
- Members provide support and guidance to help enhance accessibility and the customer experience for all aspects of the journey with Southeastern
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25 Jun 2024Southeastern uses new technology to reunite more customers with lost property
- Digital system makes it easier for customers to report and track lost items
- 78% increase in items being reunited with their owners in three months
- Trumpets, accordions and a prosthetic leg among the more unusual items left behind
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13 Jun 2024Southeastern becomes first rail operator to offer leave to kinship carers
- Part of a wider commitment to support our workforce across Kent, East Sussex and London
- Kinship care is when a child lives with a relative or close family friend
- New policy introduced following feedback from a colleague who became a kinship carer
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28 May 2024Improved Southeastern timetable launches on 2 June
- The changes will mean less waiting time on platforms, improved punctuality, and more space on the busiest services.
- New timetable designed based on journey data and feedback from customers to provide a better, more reliable, and sustainable railway.
- Longer trains and additional services will make it easier for customers to explore destinations across the south-east this summer.
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15 May 2024Southeastern announces major step towards multi-million-pound improvement in Metro train fleet
- Southeastern is inviting the rail industry to provide new or upgraded trains for Metro services.
- Current fleet provides more than 900 services and tens of thousands of journeys every day between parts of Kent and south-east and central London.
- This could be the largest investment in the Southeastern network since the introduction of the highspeed service in 2009.
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13 May 2024Southeastern collaborates with local artists to showcase destinations in Kent
- Six posters showcase some of the county’s most popular destinations.
- Southeastern's supported two local artists as part of its commitment to become a more sustainable railway.
- Extra services and longer trains will make it easier for customers to reach the coast.
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08 May 2024New secure cycle hub opens at Swanley station
- The facility holds up to 56 bikes and has a tyre pump and a cycle repair stand.
- Part of Southeastern's work to become more sustainable by making it easier for customers to cycle to the station.
- 29 bike hubs are now open across the Southeastern network.