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Monday 18 Aug 2025

Choose rail this August bank holiday

Region & Route:

Eastern: Anglia

This August bank holiday, much of the railway network across East Anglia will be open for passengers to travel and enjoy exciting destinations across Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge and Norfolk, as well as into the capital.

We’ve worked hard to keep engineering work to a minimum, allowing passengers to make the most of the extended weekend to travel across the region and visit the beautiful places East Anglia has to offer. We just can’t promise good weather. 

While the majority of the railway will be open over the bank holiday, there will be routine maintenance work taking place on some routes which is critical to the continued safety, reliability and resilience of the network, while also supporting long-term performance.

On Sunday 24 August, Greater Anglia train services will not operate between Meridian Water and Stratford. Between 08:00 and 18:00, services that normally operate between Hertford East and Stratford will be diverted to operate between Hertford East and Liverpool Street. Passengers travelling to / from Stratford can use Greater Anglia main line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.

A limited amount of engineering work is also taking place on the Tilbury and Shoeburyness branch that will affect some late-night c2c Railway services across the bank holiday weekend. Passengers needing to travel on late-night services are encouraged to check before travelling at nationalrail.co.uk and to leave extra time if their journey is affected.

Katie Frost, Anglia route director for Network Rail said: “The vast majority of passengers will be able to travel on our network across East Anglia, to visit friends, family, tourist spots or simply going to work.

“We’ve some limited engineering work happening, but I do hope people will choose rail and take advantage of our network being mostly open this bank holiday.”