Three key intercity rail lines will be interrupted over the August bank holiday weekend for Network Rail engineering projects. Journeys on the East Coast main line from the capital to Yorkshire , northeast England and Scotland will be slower and more complicated from Saturday evening, 24 August, to Monday morning, 26 August. Work between London and Peterborough means the last northbound train from King’s Cross station in the capital on Saturday will be the 9pm to Newcastle.
The London terminus will then close for 35 hours to intercity passengers until 8am on bank holiday Monday. On Sunday a reduced service will run south as far as St Neots in Cambridgeshire, from where rail-replacement buses will operate to and from Bedford. Thameslink trains from here run frequently to London St Pancras, adjacent to King's Cross.
The main operator on the line, LNER , says: “We have sourced frequent rail-replacement coaches to provide a comfortable journey during the bank holiday.” The East Coast main line closure will affect many people heading south from the Edinburgh Festival . Long-distance passengers hoping to switch to the West Coast main line instead will encounter longer journeys and some cancellations due to other Network Rail projects.
Fewer trains will run from Manchester and Birmingham to London Euston because of work at various points on the line – notably between the terminus in the capital and Wembley, and on the route through Stoke-on-Trent. The Manchester-London servi.
