Summer might be peak tourist season for Greenwich – but it will be harder to get there during the school holidays because of temporary cuts to rail services in the area. Greenwich Council has written to Thameslink asking it to reconsider plans to cut trains between July 20 and August 29 as part of a […]
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More Charing Cross trains on the way for Blackheath, Kidbrooke and Eltham
Rail passengers in southeast London will get a “turn up and go service” on most routes on Mondays to Saturdays from December, Southeastern has said, as it confirmed plans to reverse many of the service cuts made after the pandemic. Blackheath, Kidbrooke and Eltham stations are due to get more trains to Charing Cross from […]
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Summer shutdown at Charing Cross and Waterloo East for track works
Charing Cross and Waterloo East stations will be closed for 22 days during the summer holidays so engineers can replace “increasingly unreliable” old track. Trains will still run, but will either terminate at London Bridge or be diverted to Victoria, Cannon Street or Blackfriars. The closure, between July 26 and August 16, includes the first […]
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Southeastern set to restore all-day link to Elizabeth Line in plan to reverse train cuts
Southeastern Metro trains in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs could mostly return to pre-Covid service levels by the end of the year – including bringing back an all-day direct link to the Elizabeth Line at Abbey Wood. “Rounder” services that linked the Greenwich and Sidcup lines on Mondays to Saturdays could be reintroduced as soon as […]
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‘Embarrassing’ Southeastern Metro trains finally get interior makeover
The first of a fleet of Southeastern Metro trains that were branded “embarrassing” by the company’s boss has been given a makeover – with another 35 to get the same treatment. Steve White, the managing director of Southeastern, said three years ago that he was not proud of the 20-year-old Class 376 trains, which were […]
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Half-term closure of rail line through Dartford for major £10m works
No trains will run through Dartford for nine days in a row in February next year to allow major work to take place on the track. Southeastern Metro and Thameslink trains will not be able to run between Slade Green, Barnehurst or Crayford and Gravesend because of the £10 million project to replace the switches and […]
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Another ten-week closure to fix Blackheath’s leaky rail tunnel
Train services between Woolwich, Charlton and Lewisham will be disrupted again for ten weeks this spring and summer as engineers work to fix a leaky rail tunnel under Blackheath. Network Rail has confirmed the line between Charlton and Blackheath will be closed from May 19 to July 27. Most trains will be diverted via the […]
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Southeastern Metro train gets retro makeover for rail anniversary
A Southeastern Metro commuter train has been given a retro makeover to mark the 200th anniversary of the British railway network. The Networker train has been restored to the red, white and blue Network SouthEast colour scheme that it had when it was introduced to SE London’s railways in the early Nineties. Introduced in 1986, […]
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