Easter bank holiday engineering works
We’ve planned essential engineering works over the Easter bank holiday to make improvements to the railway.
Most of Britain’s railway will be open as usual this Easter however, some essential improvement work is taking place on key routes. If you’re travelling between Friday 3 April and Wednesday 8 April, please check before you travel.
Our engineers will be working around the clock to deliver more than 270 essential projects across Britain. These improvements will help keep the railway safe, reliable and resilient for the millions of you who use it every day.
Main projects
On the West Coast Main Line
- London Euston and Milton Keynes: From Friday 3 to Wednesday 8 April, no intercity trains will run between London Euston and Milton Keynes. Services will start and end at Milton Keynes with buses to Bedford for onwards trains to London St Pancras International (Bakerloo Line and Overground trains will run between Euston and Harrow/Watford every day except Saturday and Sunday).
- Preston to Carlisle: On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 April, installation of new signals and power supply equipment means there will be no trains between Preston and Lancaster. Avanti West Coast will operate a special Preston to Carlisle train service via the Settle & Carlisle line, while TransPennine Express and Northern services will terminate at Preston, Oxenholme or Grange-over-Sands.
- Carlisle to Glasgow Central/Edinburgh, Scotland: New track and points being installed on the West Coast Main Line in south Glasgow means that Anglo Scottish passengers will be diverted via Dumfries and Kilmarnock over all four days of the Bank Holiday and buses will replace trains on the Carstairs route between Glasgow and Edinburgh between Saturday and Monday inclusive.
Elsewhere on the network
- London Waterloo to Clapham Junction and around Winchester: New switches and crossings (moveable sections of track that guide trains from one track to another) and structural repairs will mean reduced services between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction, while track improvements in Hampshire will mean buses replace trains between Winchester and Southampton over all four days of the bank holiday.
- Margate: The installation of new tracks through Margate station will mean buses replace trains between Herne Bay and Ramsgate via Broadstairs over all four days of the Bank Holiday.