London Overground and Greater Anglia services will instead be diverted to other stations
Liverpool Street Station will be completely closed for a whole week after Christmas – with trains from across Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest instead terminating at alternative stations.
The UK’s busiest station is being closed for eight days in total to allow engineering work to take place within the Bishopsgate tunnel approaches. This work includes the installation of steel support girders inside the tunnel, and work to repair existing steelwork to prevent corrosion.
Work within the station itself will continue to take place to install new ticket gates for platforms one to ten to improve capacity for passengers and reduce congestion at peak times.
Preparation work for the roof renewal programme will also be taking place including the construction of scaffolding on Exchange Square at the north end of the Victorian train shed. This work will renew over 600 panels above platforms to allow more light into the station, improve the drainage system and renew the roof seals to make the roof more resilient to more frequent storm events.
It means that between Friday, 27th December, the first day of scheduled services after Christmas, and Wednesday, 1st January, London Overground trains on the Weaver Line will be terminating at London Fields in Hackney.
Meanwhile, Greater Anglia services on the West Anglia Main Line will run to and from Stratford, with the exception of Stansted Express services which will start from Tottenham Hale.
Lawrence Bowman, Network Rail’s route director for Anglia said: “We’re continuing to deliver major improvements to the Anglia rail network this Christmas to the benefit of passengers and our customers.
“With two big station projects, a huge resignalling programme around Cambridge and improvement work at the UK busiest station, we’ve got a lot to do over the festive period to get the work done while trains are not running.
“It is important to allow our skilled engineers the time to be able to work safely on the track while trains are not running, and so I want to thank everyone for their patience while we deliver this important work to improve the railway.”
Martin Beable, managing director for Greater Anglia, said: “While most of our services will be running over the festive period, so that people can continue to travel across East Anglia and beyond, engineering work is taking place and will affect some passengers travelling on both main lines to and from London and in the Cambridge area.
“A rail replacement service will run while the work takes place.
“We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the service alterations, and we urge passengers to check before they travel as some journeys may take longer than normal.”
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