Bank Holiday closure of King’s Cross will signal rail misery
Three-minute hearing for 20-year-old
Foster’s mother Jo with teddy bear MAINTENANCE King’s Cross RAIL passengers planning a Bank Holiday getaway are being urged to avoid the East Coast Main Line this weekend.
Network Rail is closing King’s Cross station, meaning there will be no trains between the London hub and Peterborough.
Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines said: “There is never a convenient time to close parts of the railway.
“We are very aware that Bank Holiday engineering work affects many people who will PC Harper’s family arrive for the hearing have wanted to make the most of the long weekend but it affects far fewer people than a closure on a normal working day.”
Train operator London North Eastern Railway issued a “do not travel” warning for the route between London and Scotland via York on Saturday and Sunday.
LNER will run a severely restricted service from Scotland and the north of England to Peterborough and warned the service will be “limited’ on the route on Monday. All Grand Central services are also cancelled but Hull Trains will be operating a service to the capital with services diverted to London St Pancras station instead.
There will also be a reduction in West Coast Mainline services in and out of London Euston, due to track replacement in Cheshire.
And East Midlands Railway trains between Leicester, Nottingham and Lincoln will also be cancelled due to a major track upgrade taking place in Newark in Nottinghamshire.