Travellers will discover rail journeys once more disrupted in late December and early January as Community Rail closes traces and stations for engineering work.
The organisation says: “Work will happen from Sunday 24 December 2023 to Tuesday 2 January 2024. The important enhancements and routine upkeep round Britain gives you a greater and extra dependable railway for the long run.”
As well as, work by HS2 will shut the Nice Western essential line from 24 to 27 December.
“A lot of the railway will keep open for enterprise as common,” Community Rail says.
These are the important thing rail engineering works over the festive season and the final dates earlier than Christmas it’s essential to journey on to make sure you make it dwelling for the vacations by prepare.
LNER/East Coast essential line
Journey to/from London no later than 23 December if you wish to be dwelling by Christmas. The East Coast essential line, connecting London King’s Cross with Yorkshire, northeast England and Scotland, will probably be closed at its southern terminus on 24 December.
No trains will run to or from King’s Cross on Christmas Eve. LNER trains will begin from or terminate at Peterborough or St Neots. The latter will probably be served by a bus hyperlink to Bedford, for onward journey to London on Thameslink. Hull Trains will probably be diverted to start out/terminate at London St Pancras Worldwide.
Larger Anglia (London-Essex-Suffolk-Norfolk)
Journey earlier than mid-evening on Christmas Eve, as all trains will finish by 10pm – besides on the Stansted Categorical. The final prepare leaves the Essex airport at 11.59pm, making it the most recent departure wherever within the UK.
Passengers on the road from London to Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich have develop into wearily accustomed to festive closures, and 2023 isn’t any exception. Work will happen between Shenfield and Witham in Essex, blocking the route from 27 December-1 January.
The Stansted Airport-Cambridge hyperlink can be closed 27 December-1 January
Southeastern (London-Kent)
Journey from London Victoria no later than 22 December. From 23 December to 1 January inclusive, the hub within the capital will probably be closed, together with Brixton station. Trains will divert to and from Blackfriars, Cannon Avenue and Charing Cross.
Southern (London-Gatwick-Sussex coast)
Full journeys by 9pm on Christmas Eve, when all companies will stop.
South Western Railway (London-Southampton/Bournemouth/Portsmouth)
Journey on any journey that covers the Southampton Airport-Southampton-Bournemouth stretch by 23 December. From Christmas Eve South Western Railway – and CrossCountry passengers – will probably be hit by the closure from 24 to 29 December of the primary Southampton Airport-Southampton-Bournemouth line. From 30 December to 1 January, consideration switches to the London-Portsmouth line – which will probably be closed between Guildford and Petersfield.
Nice Western Railway (London-South Wales/West of England)
Journey to/from London no later than 23 December. Work on the brand new HS2 station at Outdated Oak Frequent in west London will shut the Nice Western essential line from 24 to 27 December. No Nice Western Railway (GWR) trains will run between the capital and Cardiff, Bristol, the Cotswolds, Devon and Cornwall in the course of the four-day spell.
Transport for Wales
Enterprise as common, with no important rail engineering work deliberate – although no connections will probably be accessible to/from London at Newport, Cardiff and Swansea because of the Paddington station closure 24-27 December. No trains will run on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Chiltern (London-Oxford/Birmingham)
Anticipate crowds on Christmas Eve and 27 December because of the Paddington station closure. The prepare operator says:“Companies between London Marylebone and Oxford are anticipated to be busy as they would be the solely direct companies between London and Oxford”.
Avanti West Coast/West Coast essential line
The primary December disruption will happen within the run as much as New 12 months from the night of 30 December due to work between London Euston and Rugby, with a lowered service and slower journeys. New 12 months’s Day will probably be severely disrupted, with no trains between Milton Keynes Central and Rugby nor between Preston and Carlisle.
East Midlands Railway (London St Pancras-Leicester/Derby/Nottingham/Sheffield)
The important thing disruption is on 27 December, when the primary line from is closed between Kettering and Leicester.
Northern (native companies within the North of England)
The primary disruption will happen 30 December-1 January, with the next traces closed:
TransPennine Categorical (intercity companies within the North of England/southern Scotland)
Full journeys involving York-Darlington early on Christmas Eve. All day on 24 December Leeds-York journeys will probably be diverted with prolonged journey occasions and a few cancellations.
The primary disruption will happen 30-31 December, with Manchester-Preston and Huddersfield-Leeds closed to TPE trains.
On New 12 months’s Day, the traces from Preston to Carlisle and onward to Edinburgh are closed.
ScotRail
Journey to/from Glasgow Queen Avenue no later than early night on 24 December; the station closes at 8pm.
From then till 31 December there will probably be important work on traces linking Glasgow Queen Avenue with Perth, Stirling, Aberdeen and Inverness. Journeys are more likely to contain modifications of prepare and prolonged occasions.
No ScotRail trains will run on New 12 months’s Day.
Northern Eire
Work between Lagan Junction and Yorkgate Station in North Belfast will shut traces from Christmas Day to three January, disrupting traces between the capital, Larne and Derry/Londonderry.
