Birmingham Post

Major rail delays over Easter period

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COMMUTERS are bracing themselves for major Easter disruption on the railways as trains between Birmingham and London Euston are cancelled on one of the busiest weekends of the year.

Train users are advised not to travel on Easter Sunday as engineerin­g work means London Euston will effectivel­y be shutdown, with no trains running in or out of the station.

Work is being carried out at Wembley, ahead of a large-scale replacemen­t of the old, worn out junction later in the year.

Euston’s Easter Sunday shutdown will affect services along the West Coast main line, including Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester, Preston, Carlisle and Scotland. Services on Saturday, March 31 and Monday, April 2, will also be busier as fewer trains will be running.

Commuters are advised Chiltern Trains will run a revised timetable over the whole weekend and services will be running between Birmingham Moor Street and London Marylebone.

Train travel will be ‘particular­ly difficult’ over the Easter weekend, with engineerin­g work also affecting commuters travelling between Birmingham and Bristol.

From Friday, March 30, until the early hours of Wednesday, April 4, engineers will carry out Network Rail’s largest ever upgrade of signalling equipment at Bristol Temple Meads.

Trains will operate from Birmingham New Street to Bristol Parkway, with rail replacemen­t buses then continuing until Bristol Temple Meads.

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