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Open the box! – Passenger Focus responds to Department for Transport announcement on new Thameslink station


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Passenger Focus

Open the box! – Passenger Focus responds to Department for Transport announcement on new Thameslink station


  date 8 February 2006
  source Passenger Focus
  type Press release

08.02.2006

Passenger Focus, the independent national rail consumer watchdog, today welcomes the announcement by the Department for Transport that funding is available for work to take place to fit the Thameslink ‘box’.

Colin Foxall, Passenger Focus chairman, said: “At last – common sense has prevailed. Building the new Thameslink station now will help hundreds of thousands of passengers from all over Great Britain to avoid messy, confusing and tiring changes between the current station and new developments at Kings Cross and St Pancras.”

Colin Foxall urges government: “Crack on with the work now, and get the new station ready for the start of Eurostar services from St Pancras in 2007.”

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Note to editors

1. Passenger Focus is the official, independent consumer organisation representing the interests of rail users nationally. Created by the Railways Act 2005, Passenger Focus is the operating name of the Rail Passengers Council. It is a body corporate, executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Transport. Passenger Focus came into effect from Wednesday 25 January 2006. We want to make a difference for rail passengers. We’ll do this by:
providing authoritative advice for the industry based on sound research securing improvements to rail services – both big and small-scale improvements
helping passengers with advice and information campaigning for change and acting on passenger complaints

2. Media enquiries regarding this release should be addressed to:
Jane Cobell
Press Officer
0870 336 6021
Jane.cobell@passengerfocus.org.uk

To speak to a Passenger Link Manager in your area please call the press office on 0870 336 6021.


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