Planned engineering work by Network Rail to disrupt trains over Easter
South Western Railway (SWR) is urging customers to plan ahead this Easter due to major engineering works.
Planned engineering work over the Easter Holidays will affect services to and from London Waterloo.
While the vast majority of the SWR network will be open, rail replacement buses will operate in some areas.
Some train services will be revised or diverted, start and terminate at different stations, or will not run.
Customers are advised to check their entire journey before travelling using a journey planner, as engineering work may also affect other train operators and parts of the wider network.
On Sunday 9 and Monday 10 April, some lines in the Queenstown Road (Battersea) area will be closed.
Earlsfield station will be closed on both days and fewer trains will serve Vauxhall.
Customers are asked to use other nearby stations, however buses will also run between Clapham Junction, Earlsfield and Wimbledon.
On Sunday, services between London Waterloo, Chessington South and Hampton Court will run hourly.
On Monday, services between London Waterloo, Chessington South, Shepperton, Hampton Court and Guildford via Cobham will run hourly.
On both days, these amended services will not call at Earlsfield or Vauxhall. Other service alterations will be in effect and customers should check before travelling.
Peter Williams, customer and commercial Director at South Western Railway, said: “Closing the railway when many people are planning leisure trips is of course frustrating, but the Easter bank holidays are typically a quieter time on our network and we need to make sure engineering works impact as few customers as possible.”
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South Western Railway is illegally using the ‘P* Code’ loophole to cut half-hourly services on the Guildford via Cobham line to hourly. The Office of Rail & Rode allows operators to make short notice service cuts in EXCEPTIONAL circumstances, eg trees falling on the line or staff being struck by mass outbreak of plague. This is known as a ‘P* Code’ cancellation. Instead, they are doing it simply to save money and for operational convenience, eg so they can run diverted main line trains on the line at the expense of the local service or to transfer Cobham line trains and staff to Twickenham for the rugby crowds. They tell passengers this is because of engineering work. It’s not true – as I got SWR managers to admit (I have the written evidence to prove it). No engineering work was taking place on the line on the weekends in question (if there had been, SWR wouldn’t have been able to run any services on the line at all).
Don’t trust anything that SWR or any other FirstGroup-owned operator tells you when it cuts services. Other FG-owned train operators like Trans Pennine Express have been caught doing the same thing. ALWAYS challenge SWR to PROVE that the cut in service is justified and copy any complaint to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).