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A busy road next to London Bridge station will be closed to traffic one way as the Thameslink Programme enters the final stage of its massive station rebuilding project.

Network Rail’s face of the May Day Bank Holiday, Paul Clark, from Kent, is used to spending his weekends and bank holidays working to improve the railway in the south east of England.

Network Rail today announced that David Waboso, capital programmes director at London Underground, will join the company as managing director, Digital Railway.

After a long weekend of heavy engineering work and stormy weather across Kent and London, the railway network is up and running again.

After a long weekend of heavy engineering work – and some dreadful weather - across Sussex and London, the railway network is up and running again.

London’s second-busiest station will be much quieter this Easter break as Network Rail improvement work means no trains will run from Victoria to Sussex and Gatwick Airport.

Passengers planning to travel into London and across Kent this Easter should check before they travel as Network Rail will be carrying out a major improvement programme in the area over the bank holiday weekend. 

Wallets, mobiles phones, umbrellas, false teeth and even a new kitchen sink… Thameslink’s railway cleaners find all kinds of leftovers when trains pull into their sidings for a break.