Easter weekend engineering work

Network Rail is working over Easter to progress the Thameslink Programme. There is a huge amount going on in central London as well as at West Hampstead and Luton where platforms are being extended.

These are the changes to be aware of:

1. Thameslink Programme engineering work in central London will see the usual weekend closure between St Pancras International and London Bridge/Herne Hill extended across the entire holiday weekend, from Good Friday to Easter Monday inclusive
   
2. In addition there will be no half-hourly stopping service to/from London from Luton, Luton Airport Parkway and Harpenden all Easter weekend, from Good Friday to Easter Monday inclusive. These services will instead start and terminate at St Albans.
   
3. The four-trains-an-hour semi-fast services to/from London and Bedford will still run all Easter weekend with the following exception:
   In the early hours of Easter Monday (00.30-04.30) there will be rail replacement buses running Leagrave-Luton-Luton Airport Parkway-St Albans.
   
4. In the early hours of Easter Sunday (02.00-08.00) , a bus service will replace semi-fast services to/from Bedford between Hendon and St Pancras International. When these services resume, they will run this day into the high-level East Midlands platforms 1-4 at St Pancras International. This is because of other Thameslink Programme work elsewhere on the route.

Some of these changes are necessary because Network Rail is installing a new wider bridge at Luton which will require local road closures.

What IS running over the Easter weekend?

Thursday 1 April 2010

From 22.30 no trains will operate through central London.  Replacement buses will provide connections between St. Pancras and London Bridge.

Good Friday 2 April 2010

No trains will run through central London.  The following train services will operate:

• 4 trains per hour running semi-fast between Bedford and St. Pancras
• 2 trains per hour calling all stations between St. Albans and St. Pancras
• 2 trains per hour between London Bridge and Brighton
• 2 trains per hour from London Bridge to Herne Hill via Sutton and Wimbledon and vice versa

Saturday 3 April 2010

No trains will run through central London.  The following train services will operate:

• 4 trains per hour running semi-fast between Bedford and St. Pancras*
• 2 trains per hour calling all stations between St. Albans and St. Pancras*
• 4 trains per hour between London Bridge and Brighton
• 2 trains per hour from London Bridge to Herne Hill via Sutton and Wimbledon and vice versa

*After 22.30 all services will start from and terminate at the East Midlands Trains platforms 1 – 4 at St. Pancras. 

Sunday 4 April 2010 

No trains will run through Central London.  The following train services will operate:

• 4 trains per hour running semi-fast between Bedford and St. Pancras starting and terminating at the East Midlands Trains platforms 1 – 4 at St. Pancras.

Between 02.00 and 08.00 trains to and from Bedford will start and terminate at Hendon.  A replacement bus service will operate between St. Pancras and Hendon.  The first train to run from Bedford to St. Pancras will be the 07.12 departure.  The first train to run from St. Pancras to Bedford will be the 08.33 departure.

• 2 trains per hour calling all stations between St. Albans and Kentish Town
• The normal Sunday service will operate between London Bridge and Brighton.
• The normal Sunday service will operate between London Bridge and Sutton via Wimbledon. 

Easter Monday 5 April 2010 

No trains will run through central London.  The following train services will operate:

• 4 trains per hour running semi-fast between Bedford and St. Pancras

Between 00.30 and 04.30 trains from Bedford will start and terminate at Leagrave.  Trains from St. Pancras will start and terminate at St. Albans.  A replacement bus service will operate between St. Albans and Leagrave.  The first train to run from Bedford to St. Pancras will be the 04.12 departure.  The first train to run from St. Pancras to Bedford will be the 04.32 departure.

• 2 trains per hour calling all stations between St. Albans and St. Pancras
• The normal Saturday service will operate between London Bridge and Brighton.
• The normal Saturday service will operate from London Bridge to Herne Hill via Sutton and Wimbledon and vice versa.