• Passengers able to travel by bus and rail on single commercial smartcard • Pilot scheme joins up journeys on South West Trains and Stagecoach South buses • Latest Stagecoach project follows publication of DfT rail strategy • Group leads transport industry on roll-out of Government-preferred ITSO technology

New measures to tackle drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction. Focus on preventative track and signalling maintenance, improved access for engineers. Better management of disruption, clearer information and travel options for passengers. Closer working for one of Europe’s busiest and most complex rail networks.

Passengers on some of the busiest rail routes in the United Kingdom are set to benefit from extra carriages to ease overcrowding and the former Waterloo International Station is to be reopened for commuter services, transport secretary Justine Greening announced earlier. The 60 extra carriages are being added thanks to government funding for South West Trains to lease the vehicles.

South West Trains is launching Friday 11th November, its second RailBAM® device at Mortlakenear Richmond that can diagnose potential technical problems with trains,by listening to them as they pass in traffic.

SouthWest Trains to use Twitter to communicate with passengers. Scheme is part of strategy to improve passenger communication.

South West Trains is now operating its new winter timetable which started on Sunday, 12th December. Following feedback from passengers and stakeholders, the new winter timetable will benefit passengers travelling between Lymington Pier (and from the Isle of Wight via Lymington Pier) onwards to Southampton or London Waterloo.