Future
Southern, as part of their successful bid for the South Central franchise in 2009, made several commitments to improving services across the network. These included:
- Increasing the length of suburban services in South London to 10 cars between 2011 and 2013
- Increasing the service level on all routes in South London to 4 trains per hour (tph) until 23:00 each day, and the introduction of late night services on Fridays and Saturdays
- The introduction of an hourly service on Sundays between Brighton and Southampton Central, and an increase in the number of late night services between Brighton and Worthing
- The introduction of late night services on the London to Uckfield route
- A new service to Southampton Airport and an increase in the number of Gatwick Express services extended to Brighton in peak times
- Introduction of CCTV in all Southern operated trains and stations by June 2011
- Installation of new ticket gates at 22 stations across the network
- Increasing the number of car parking spaces at stations by 1,000 and the number of cycle spaces by 1,500
- Cleaning and refreshing of all stations and trains on the network
- Major refurbishments to seven stations, specifically Brighton, Haywards Heath, Hove, Lewes, Redhill, Three Bridges and Worthing
- Introduction of ITSO smartcards by January 2012
- Class 456 to be transferred to South West Trains in 2014
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