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Staff working on the £6.5bn Thameslink Programme have lent a helping hand to create a new community garden in the Bankside area near London Bridge station.

A three-day closure of Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Waterloo East and part of London Bridge came to end at 4am this morning (Tuesday) after a long weekend of major improvement work.

Network Rail is continuing its investment programme in the South East this weekend with a series of projects in South London, Kent, and Sussex.

Rail passengers are reminded to check before travelling over the bank holiday weekend as Network Rail will be carrying out its full programme of investment work following the decision by the TSSA and RMT unions to suspend industrial action which had been planned for Monday and Tuesday next week.

Hundreds of thousands of passengers and freight users are benefitting today after more than £50m of investment and improvement work was completed successfully across Britain’s railway over the May Day bank holiday weekend.

Passengers planning to travel to central London during the first May Bank Holiday from some parts of Kent and South East London are being encouraged to check before they travel as Network Rail continues its improvement work across the region.

Hundreds of thousands of passengers and freight users will experience long term benefits from almost £50m of investment in improving Britain’s rail network over the May Day bank holiday weekend. Over 95% of the network will be unaffected by this work programme.

The ghostly remains of a long-lost South London railway station – closed 100 years ago - have been uncovered by engineers constructing the Bermondsey Dive Under, as part of the Thameslink Programme.