Every day, we help millions of people to make journeys across London: By Tube, bus, tram, car, bike – and more. People don’t associate us with journeys by river, on foot or via the air, but we help with that, too. Getting people to where they need to go has been our business for over 100 years, and it shows. We’re leaders in our field, and no other city’s transport system is quite as recognisable: Red buses, black taxis, Tube trains and roundels have become icons in their own right.
Our main job is to keep the city moving, working and growing but to do that, we have to listen. Constant improvements across the network are fuelled by feedback and comments from customers, as well as work within communities, representative groups, businesses and other London transport stakeholders.
But our progress also depends on technology and data. With the future at our fingertips, we’ve already used it to revolutionise travel payments (think Oyster and contactless payment cards), and improved travel information. Tech and data is essential, not just to our future, but to others’: third parties use our data to power apps and services vital to customer journeys.
So what’s next? As well as continuing to deliver Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s strategy and commitments on transport, our programme of capital investments is still one of the largest. We launched the Elizabeth line, we’re modernising services and stations and making travel safer for all.
Here at Northern, we connect tens of thousands of people in the North of England to work, leisure, education and more every day.
Northern Trains Limited (as we're more formally known) is publicly owned, and our parent company is DfTO. We've got headquarters in York, Manchester and Leeds but our network spans over 500 stations and we provide more than 2,600 services each day.
Right now, we’re building a new kind of workplace. One where people feel included, where they thrive, and where everyone contributes to a culture that embraces diversity. We’re looking for talented people from all backgrounds to help us create a service for our customers that we can all be proud of.
It means that whoever you are, as part of our team, you’ll get to enjoy a career that could really take you places. And with over 7,500 people here at Northern in hundreds of different roles, the number of career paths and development opportunities that are open to you is endless.
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Southeastern runs train services into London from Kent and East Sussex, operating some 1600 trains a day, carrying more than 400,000 passengers each weekday, serving 181 stations and covering 540 miles of track. We operate one of the busiest networks in the country including the UK’s first domestic high speed service with Javelin trains.
SE Trains Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of DfT OLR Holdings Limited (known as DFT Operators, or DFTO) the Public Sector Owning Group which also operates LNER, Northern, South Western Railway, c2c, TransPennine and Greater Anglia services.