Coaches replace East Midlands trains south of Luton on June weekend

Friday 5 Jun 2015

Coaches replace East Midlands trains south of Luton on June weekend

Region & Route:: | Southern

Coaches will replace East Midlands Trains (EMT) services between Luton and London St Pancras International on 20 and 21 June during a weekend of Network Rail engineering work to improve services.

Some Kettering services will also be subject to alteration and cancellation.

Passengers travelling to and from Luton Airport should allow an extra 15 minutes to connect with a Thameslink airport shuttle bus between the airport and Luton.

Steve Hughes, Area Director for Network Rail said: “We are completing many different upgrades to our rail network over the weekend of 20 and 21 June. This will bring real benefits for passengers, both in improving day to day reliability and providing an improved network which can run more and faster services in the future.

“By completing all of these items of work over a single weekend we minimise the impact upon passengers and we have worked hard with operators to make sure that good alternative travel routes are available. I thank passengers for their patience during this essential work.”

The work scheduled for the weekend of 20/21 June includes:

Demolition and reconstruction of Robinsons pedestrian bridge to the north of Elstree and Borehamwood station.
Bringing into service a new servicing facility for Thameslink trains at Cricklewood
Track renewals at Radlett, Harpenden and Derby
Renewal of overhead line electrification equipment between Mill Hill and Scratchwood
Drainage improvements near Wellingborough
Work on new, modern signalling equipment between west Hampstead and Radlett Junction as part of the Thameslink programme

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Notes to editors

For information and travel advice, visit http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/train-times/engineering-works or @EMTrains or visit the National Rail Enquiries website where details of alternative transport are detailed http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/currentAndFuture.aspx.

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