Full list of UK train station closures and disruptions over Christmas 2024

Travelling by bid this festive play could beryllium peculiarly hard with immoderate of the UK’s busiest stations acceptable to beryllium closed.

This year’s Christmas volition beryllium the archetypal festive play since 2019 wherever bid travellers won’t person to enactment up with Covid question restrictions oregon rail strikes.

But that doesn’t mean everything is going to beryllium plain sailing, arsenic immoderate of the country’s large stations and astir fashionable routes volition beryllium closed owed to engineering work.

Here’s Metro’s database of each the stations and lines which won’t beryllium unfastened his Christmas, to marque your upcoming travel arsenic creaseless arsenic possible.

London Liverpool Street

The UK’s busiest railway station, London Liverpool Street, volition beryllium closed for 8 days this festive period.

Network Rail has confirmed the news, noting that the presumption volition beryllium closed from Christmas Day until January 2 owed to engineering works.

It means delays and cancellations for radical looking to sojourn loved ones oregon instrumentality location pursuing festive celebrations.

The presumption closure means Greater Anglia trains – including the Stansted Express – volition beryllium diverted via Stratford, which volition beryllium utilized arsenic the bid company’s London terminus.

People volition beryllium capable to alteration onto the Central enactment oregon Jubilee enactment astatine Stratford to scope cardinal London.

London Overground services successful the country volition commencement and terminate astatine London Fields alternatively – including ones from Chingford that don’t usually halt astatine London Fields.

There are apt to beryllium little Overground services arsenic good – 2 per hr to Chingford and 1 per hr to Enfield Town and Cheshunt.

People successful this country are advised to usage Victoria enactment bid services from Walthamstow Central and Seven Sisters oregon section autobus routes.

London Paddington

The celebrated London Paddington is excessively acceptable to beryllium closed for a play this Christmas.

Engineering enactment means the presumption volition beryllium unopen for 3 days betwixt December 27 and 29.

That spells atrocious quality for those trying to question from the superior to the West Country, with trains from southbound Wales and Bristol usually terminating astatine Paddington.

Great Western Railway person announced plans to divert its long-distance trains Cornwall, Devon and Wales into Euston during this period.

London St Pancras

St Pancras, the country’s eighth busiest bid station, volition spot definite routes affected owed to operation enactment this Christmas.

No trains volition tally connected the Midland Main Line northbound from the presumption to Luton, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield between December 21 and December 29.

Intercity journeys successful and retired of the superior during this play volition instrumentality an hr longer than usual.

And the Thameslink enactment volition beryllium effected, with nary trains acceptable to tally betwixt St Pancras and Harpenden.

The closure of St Pancras is acceptable to spot London Euston go highly busy, peculiarly owed to the added closures astatine Paddington and Liverpool Street.

Cambridge

Cambridge railway presumption is besides acceptable to acquisition engineering works, meaning it volition beryllium closed betwixt Christmas Day and January 5, 2025.

Network Rail said the closure is to: ‘Support the continuing operation of Cambridge South station, and besides present the archetypal signifier of the signalling the renewal programme of the Cambridge area.’

There volition beryllium nary trains moving connected the nexus from Cambridge to Royson, Audley End, Cambridge North oregon Bury St Edmunds from December 24 to December 31, with Thameslink and Great Northern trains besides effected.

West Coast main line

The Avanti West Coast work this Christmas volition besides beryllium effected by closures.

Crewe, 1 of the UK’s interchange stations, volition spot nary trains tally done it connected December 27, and acold little trains than accustomed up until January 5 owed to resignalling work.

Avanti West Coast services successful the northbound of England to Preston, Glasgow and Edinburgh are to beryllium diverted done Manchester, meaning journey-times volition increase.

Links from London Euston to Birmingham and Manchester volition beryllium reduced from 3 to 2 per hour.

On Friday December 27, aft a two-day shutdown, determination volition beryllium nary Liverpool Lime Street services connected Avanti West Coast too.

And connected New Year’s Day, the Milton Keynes Central to Rugby enactment volition beryllium closed, meaning Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow lines volition statesman astatine Rugby.

Network Rail confirmed 95% of the bid web would beryllium moving arsenic normal.

Helen Hamlin, Network Rail’s manager of strategy operations, said: ‘The festive play is simply a unsocial opportunity, erstwhile less radical are travelling, to bash large pieces of enactment to marque services better, much punctual and much reliable.

‘The large projects we’re undertaking would different instrumentality galore weekends to implicit and origin overmuch much disruption.

‘Whilst roads are busier during the holidays, it’s really 1 of the quietest times connected the railway, meaning we tin amended things whilst causing little disruption to passengers and freight flows.’

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