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From Saturday 4 to Monday 6 May customers are asked to check before travelling as planned upgrades and routine maintenance to the railway take place across Kent, Sussex and south east London
Rail customers in South London, Sussex and Kent are urged to plan ahead of the Early May Bank Holiday as Network Rail gets set to undertake essential planned engineering work.
Network Rail, East Midlands Railway (EMR) and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) are encouraging passengers to check their journey before travelling as major engineering work to upgrade the Midland Main Line continues throughout April and May.
The railway between Redhill and Tonbridge will reopen for the start of service on Monday morning after Network Rail’s engineers successfully completed emergency landslip repairs at Bough Beech, near Edenbridge in Kent
Train services in the Cambridge area will be affected by planned engineering work over three May weekends, including Bank Holiday Monday 6 may.
The line between Tonbridge and Redhill will be closed for at least two weeks while Network Rail undertakes urgent repairs to the embankment that carries the railway.
Work to improve the passenger experience at London Victoria station is almost complete with new ticket gates set to come into use between spring and summer.
From Friday 29 March to Monday 1 April customers are being urged to check before they travel as buses replace trains across parts of the railway in Kent, Sussex and South London.
Much of the railway will be open over Easter for passengers to travel across the region and the country. There are some engineering works taking place and passengers are advised to check before they travel.
Network Rail and train operators are reminding passengers to plan ahead and check before travelling as further improvement work to the Midland Main Line takes place across two weekends in March.
In a big step forward for the East Coast Digital Programme, new technology has now been successfully commissioned between Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin, bringing digital signalling on the East Coast Main Line a step closer.
Network Rail will be carrying out major upgrades to the Midland Main Line across four weekends in February and March resulting in some changes to East Midlands Railway and Thameslink services.
Network Rail has thanked customers travelling between Eastleigh and Fareham for their patience while emergency works to stabilise a cutting took place. Engineers will return to Fareham for the second time from Monday 12 to Friday 16 February to carry out major track renewal works, which means that buses will replace trains.
Engineering work to install state-of-the-art digital signalling will close sections of the East Coast Main Line between London and Peterborough for two weekends and two working days in February
The switch-on of a new signalling system in South London, which was due to close large parts of the National Rail and London Overground networks from Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 February, is being re-planned to later in 2024. Trains in the Tooting, Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill and Peckham Rye areas will now run as normal from Monday 12 through to Friday 16 February.
Rail users in Surrey will soon benefit from step-free access at Leatherhead station as Network Rail announces accessibility upgrades starting this January.
Network Rail is reminding customers to plan ahead and allow plenty of time as buses replace South Western Railway, Great Western Railway and Southern trains between Southampton Central and Havant, Eastleigh and Portsmouth Harbour, and Southampton Central and Portsmouth Harbour, this February half term.
Further engineering work as part of the billion-pound East Coast Digital Programme is planned between King’s Cross and Peterborough in February half term that will close a section of the East Coast Main Line for a weekend and two working days.
Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway are asking passengers to plan ahead and check before they travel over the weekend of Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 January as engineers are set to carry out upgrades to improve the reliability of the railway between London, Gatwick Airport, and the south coast.
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