Simon Kirby MP welcomes today’s news of special compensation payment for season ticket holders on the Southern network.

The Secretary of State has today announced special compensation payment for season ticket holders on the Southern network saying in a letter to Simon that “while nothing can truly make up for what you and your constituents have had to endure, I hope this goes some way to showing that the government is on their side.”

Passengers with a Brighton to London annual season ticket, for example, will get £371 back. Quarterly, regular monthly and weekly ticket holders will also qualify for compensation. GTR will contact passengers setting out what they are owed and how to have it paid directly into their bank accounts. For those passengers who do not wish to have money paid into their bank accounts evouchers will be available.

Simon also welcomes the announcement that from 11 December, all Southern passengers will be eligible for compensation for any train delayed for 15 minutes or longer, rather than the current 30 minutes. 

Simon said, “ I am absolutely on the side of hard-pressed commuters in Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven and continue to urge the Unions and the Company to do all they can to resolve this dispute.”