Kings Cross station closures over half term
The closures from Saturday February 17 to Tuesday February 20 are due to work on the billion-pound East Coast Digital Programme.
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00:00 Planned Engineering Works will see Kings Cross station closed over the February half term.
00:06 Passengers have been warned of further train disruption coming at Kings Cross station due to Planned Engineering Works.
00:14 Network Rail already finished two weekends of upgrades in January, but will close a section of the East Coast mainline between Kings Cross and Peterborough over the February half term for further work.
00:27 The closures from Saturday February 17th to Tuesday February 20th are due to work on the billion pound East Coast Digital Programme where a new digital signalling system will be installed.
00:40 An amended train service will now run between Kings Cross and Potters Bar on Saturday 17th, Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th February.
00:50 Rick Barsby, Head of Access and Integration for the East Coast Digital Programme said that this is a huge milestone for the project and is a testament to the incredible hard work and dedication of the engineers over the last year.
01:05 Jenny Saunders, Customer Services Director at Govia Thameslink Railway said that she is sorry for the disruption it will cause Great Northern and Thameslink customers.
01:15 She added that the extremely limited rail replacement bus service is likely to be very busy over the four day period and are encouraging customers to travel later in the week if they can.
01:27 For more on this head to Londonworld.com