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Rail passengers in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex can look forward to better journeys as Network Rail’s work to improve and upgrade the railway continues over the spring bank holiday weekend (28-30 May).

Residents in Lea Bridge will now be able to reach two of London’s key transport hubs in six minutes, by boarding a train at the new Lea Bridge Station in Leyton, East London from today (Monday 16 May).

The Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP, visited the site of a new £50m station north of Cambridge today (12 May 2016), to see the progress that has been made one year before it officially opens to the public.

Network Rail’s orange army has replaced nearly 1,000 metres of track on the line between Norwich and London over the Bank Holiday weekend to make passenger journeys into London more reliable.

Work to improve the reliability of journeys to and from London this May Bank Holiday will be less disruptive, while still delivering significant benefits for passengers in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex on this important route to and from the capital.

Residents and motorists have been thanked for their patience as work continues at the site of a landslip outside Hexham which caused the railway to be closed for several weeks.

Rail chiefs today said a big thank you to passengers from London, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, who have had to take weekend travel alternatives into London Liverpool Street since early February, after Network Rail completed a 10-weekend package of works as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan to provide a bigger, better, more reliable railway for passengers. 

• Network Rail and Transport for London will be holding drop-in sessions at stations to answer questions
• Work to install new infrastructure will require a phased programme of closures from June this year

• Journeys on the route to be improved and capacity doubled with new four-carriage electric trains from early 2018