A CRUCIAL meeting being held tomorrow between First Capital Connect (FCC) drivers and union bosses could signal an end to the ongoing pay row.

Hundreds of delayed and cancelled trains on the Thameslink Bedford to Brighton route have continued to cause misery for commuters over the past month.

The rail company FCC has apologised to its customers for the reduced service offered on the revised timetable set up more than a week ago.

Bosses have met with the union Aslef with a pay offer in a bid to bring the drivers, who refused to work overtime or on rest days, back to work.

An Aslef executive meeting is due to take place tomorrow when bosses will put the new pay offer to its drivers and depending on the outcome FCC will be introducing a revised timetable from December 13 with the following changes: Two extra trains calling at Harpenden and St Albans City stations will run on the line – a 6.18am Bedford to Sutton weekday service and a 6.44pm Elephant and Castle to St Albans.

However the Bedford to Brighton service which calls at London Bridge at 4.42pm will be taking a different route through Elephant and Castle and no longer call at that station.