LNER warns of disruption to London services over August Bank Holiday weekend
LNER's warning to passengers of travel disruption over August Bank Holiday.
TRAIN company LNER is warning passengers not to travel to London over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
The company says work is starting to improve the service across the East Coast Main Line to bring faster, more reliable journeys, but there will be no services to London on August 24th and 25th.
On Monday, August 26th there will be a reduced service and trains will be very busy.
On Friday 23rd and August 27th there will be a normal service but trains will remain very busy.
A spokesman for LNER said significant Network Rail engineering works are due to take place this summer which will impact rail services. Of particular note is the planned disruption on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 August when LNER will not be running any trains between Peterborough and King’s Cross.
This will cause significant disruption across our entire route and we have therefore made the decision to issue a ‘Do Not Travel’ message to customers for this weekend.
On Monday 26 August, a much reduced service will be in operation with trains being diverted between Doncaster and Newark or Peterborough as Network Rail’s work in the Newark area continues.
We are strongly advising customers to travel Friday, when northbound evening peak ticket restrictions will be lifted, and Tuesday where they can.
LNER is keeping passengers updated via its social media channels.
https://twitter.com/LNER/status/1160113558450872322
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LNERail/posts/
These engineering works will consist of essential remodelling work on the approach to King’s Cross station, which is a crucial part of the £780m Network Rail investment into the East Coast Mainline. This investment will deliver:
- Remodelled tracks on the approach to London King’s Cross station;
- A new terminating platform built at Stevenage for London suburban services;
- Dive-under constructed at Werrington, just north of Peterborough, to remove conflicts with freight services.
Once complete, this will allow LNER to run up to eight long distance services per hour into and out of London, and will enable us to deliver quicker and better journeys for passengers across our route and more direct services to London.
The company says it recognises that these works will result in disruption for passengers, but they intend disruption to be as minimal as possible by carrying out much of it during planned weekend closures of the railway between 2019 and 2021. This disruption is unavoidable if we wish to bring King’s Cross and the network into the 21st century and ensure the passenger journey continues to improve in the long-term.
