Essential maintenance work is scheduled to take place over the late May bank holiday, Saturday 25th – Monday 27th May, affecting services across East Anglia and in East London.
Although many services will be running, operators and Network Rail strongly advise passengers to check their journeys before travelling, especially as there will be disruption to the main line through Essex over that weekend.
Greater Anglia services
Services between London Liverpool Street and Norwich, Ipswich, Clacton, Colchester and Braintree will not run south of Witham between Saturday 25th – Monday 27th May.
This is to allow work to continue on building Beaulieu Park station, where track, overhead wires and footbridges will be installed at the first newly built station on the Great Eastern Main Line in over a century.
Buses will run between Witham and Billericay, taking approximately 50 minutes. Stopper buses will also be in place through Hatfield Peverel and Chelmsford, taking just over an hour.
From Billericay, regular trains will operate to Shenfield, Stratford and London Liverpool Street.
There will also be shuttle buses running between Ingatestone and Chelmsford and Ingatestone and Shenfield.
No trains will operate between Ipswich and Lowestoft on Sunday 26th or Monday 27th May and replacement buses will run instead. This is due to track maintenance and tamping between Westerfield and Oulton Broad South.
Instead of calling at Seven Sisters, trains will stop at Tottenham Hale from Sunday 26th – Tuesday 28th May.
Maintenance work is also planned on platforms at London Liverpool Street station.
Passengers are advised to check their journeys at the Greater Anglia website.
A rail replacement service will run while the work takes place, and passengers are advised to check before they travel and allow more time for their journey.
Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia managing director
London Overground services
Work to replace the points at Bury Street Junction in North London will affect services going to and from Enfield Town and Cheshunt.
No London Overground trains will run between Liverpool Street and Enfield Town or Cheshunt on Sunday 26th or Monday 27th May.
On these dates, trains between Liverpool Street and Chingford will be running, but not call at Bethnal Green.
There will be no London Overground trains between Hackney Downs and Enfield Town or Cheshunt stations on Tuesday 28th May.
A revised service will operate between Liverpool Street and Chingford. Some of these trains will make additional stops at Cambridge Heath and London Fields and will depart earlier than usual.
Replacement buses will be in place between Seven Sisters, Enfield Town and Cheshunt. London Underground and London Buses will be running between Liverpool Street and Seven Sisters.Â
Network Rail recommends using Clapton station on the Chingford line for passengers wanting to go to or from Rectory Road and Stoke Newington.
There will be similar changes to services on the following weekends, due to preparatory and follow-up work:
- Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May
- Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June
- Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June
- Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June
- Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 July
Trains will be running on Saturday 25th May for the rugby Investec Champions Cup Final at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
For up-to-date information on these services, passengers should go to the TFL website.
We have a lot of great destinations on our network, and we hope people are able to get out and about this the late May bank holiday weekend.
There will be some engineering work taking place on our network. A rail replacement service will run while the work takes place, and passengers are advised to check before they travel and allow more time for their journey.
This work is extremely important to help maintain the safe and reliable running of the railway.
We would like to thank customers for their patience and understanding while this essential maintenance is carried out.
Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia managing director
We’ve worked with our train operators to keep the majority of the railway open for this second bank holiday in May. There will be, however, some construction, track and overhead line maintenance work to keep our railway safe and reliable. Every maintenance task completed during this time contributes to a dependable service for all those travelling across Anglia.
Lawrence Bowman, Network Rail’s route director for Anglia
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