Passengers have been informed by Transport for London (TfL) that the Elizabeth line will be closed on weekends in February. It is scheduled to start disrupting on Sunday, January 28.
Until 12.15 pm, a reduced service will operate between Stratford and Gidea Park. Trains, which usually operate between Paddington and Gidea Park, run between Paddington and Stratford only.
There will be four trains per hour serving the stations between Maryland and Gidea Park. Service between Stratford and Shenfield will not be available on February 3 and 4, which is one week later.
Replacement buses will operate:
- Service C: Stratford City (for Maryland) Forest Gate (Romford Road), Manor Park (Romford Road), Ilford and Seven Kings Goodmayes, Chadwell Heath (Wangey Road), Romford
- Service D: Newbury Park (for Central line), Chadwell Heath (Wangey Road), Romford, Gidea Park, Harold Wood, Brentwood and Shenfield
On Sunday (February 4), from 7.40 am, there will also be a reduced service operating between Paddington and Maidenhead / Heathrow. In addition, Acton Main Line, Hanwell, Heathrow Terminal 4, West Drayton, Langley, Slough, Burnham, and Maidenhead will only be served by two trains an hour.
Meanwhile, West Ealing will be served by four trains an hour. Ealing Broadway, Southall, Hayes, and Harlington will be served by six trains per hour.
Replacement buses will operate every weekend
On February 10 and 11, there will be no service between Liverpool Street National Rail Station, Whitechapel, and Shenfield. Replacement Service C and D buses will again operate
On Saturday, February 17, there will be no service between Stratford and Shenfield. The same replacement buses will operate.
The next disruption is scheduled to occur at 7.40 a.m. on Sunday, February 18. There will be a curtailed Paddington to Maidenhead/Heathrow service.
All trains will start and terminate at Paddington National Rail Station. Acton Main Line, Hanwell, Heathrow Terminal 4, West Drayton, Langley, Slough, Burnham, and Maidenhead will be served by two trains an hour.
There will be four trains per hour serving West Ealing. Six trains every hour will service Southall, Hayes, Harlington, and Ealing Broadway.
The final weekend in February (February 24 and 25) will see no service between Stratford and Shenfield. Officials will once again put on replacement buses.
You have to hand it to Sadiq Kahn; if nothing else, he’s consistent and bloody useless all of the time.
Oh yes, on par with some negative winter-striking, pathetic Railway Trade Unions, clobbering real working-class people trying to get to work by rail. Who is the Mayor going to blame this one on? Another monumental example of failure at epic expense.
Is there anything the UK can’t do correctly? Or is this only a deplorable, mediaeval kind of trade unionism? But then, let’s face it, Britain struggles now to manufacture a tin of baked beans without some misfit interference.
These days, it feels like we can’t get anything right. The UK is in such a mess, and everything appears to be broken or not functioning at all.
Oh yes, and the ‘Fat Controller’ is? The Mayor of London!
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