GWR Chooses to Challenge for International Women’s Day

08 MAR 2021

GWR Chooses to Challenge for International Women’s Day

Great Western Railway (GWR) is celebrating International Women’s Day with a film featuring colleagues challenging themselves and others to forge a more equal world.

The film, using the official International

GWR ramps up service as schools set to return

Great Western Railway will increase the number of trains it runs as schools and colleges across its network prepare to return to the classroom next week.

Rail services were reduced when a third nationwide lockdown was introduced in January, and the rail operator is implementing a phased return to its previous, full timetable. 

The train operator has reviewed its database of ‘school trains’, services that students and pupils use in high numbers, and ensured that those services where they have been removed are reinstated for Monday 8 March as schools return. Extra staff will also be on hand at key stations to help provide advice and guidance to returning students.

The increase will see the train operator return to