Monday 12 Jan 2004

AN APOLOGY TO C2C PASSENGERS

Region & Route:
| Eastern: Anglia
| Eastern
| Southern
“Network Rail would like to apologise to c2c passengers for the disruption to services this morning. “We were replacing track between Upminster and Laindon.  Due to unforeseen circumstances the engineering work took longer than expected and had an affect on peak passenger services. “We are hopeful that the line between Upminster and Laindon will shortly be reopened and ‘near to normal’ passenger services will be restored for this evening’s peak.”

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