No Overground, Thameslink Trains for Seven Days
Network Rail has reminded customers to plan ahead and check before they travel over half-term as no overground trains will run for seven days on some parts of the National Rail and London Overground networks in the capital. This is while engineers bring an upgraded signalling system online.
The disruption will start this Saturday, October 26, and finish on Friday, November 1. Network Rail says the upgrades taking place between Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill and Peckham Rye are part of a £400 million programme of investment in track and signalling upgrades that it is delivering in South London.
Officials hope it will result in signalling-related delays being more than halved. This happened after a previous phase of signalling upgrades between East Croydon and London Victoria in 2022. Network Rail has been handing out leaflets to customers ahead of the works.
Advice to customers
Buses replacing Southern services will only run between London Bridge and Streatham Common, via Peckham Rye and Tulse Hill. Trains that usually run between London Bridge and London Victoria, and between London Victoria and West Croydon (via Crystal Place), will only run between London Victoria and Streatham Hill. Additional trains will run between London Bridge and Sutton via West Croydon.
Stations with no trains
The following stations will have no Southern trains for seven days between Saturday 26 October and Friday 1 November inclusive:
- South Bermondsey
- Queens Road Peckham
- Peckham Rye
- East Dulwich
- North Dulwich
- Tulse Hill
- West Norwood
- Gipsy Hill
- Crystal Palace
- Birkbeck
- Beckenham Junction
The following stations will have no Thameslink trains for seven days between Saturday 26 October and Friday 1 November inclusive:
- Tulse Hill
- Streatham
- Mitcham Eastfields
- Mitcham Junction
- Hackbridge
- Carshalton
- Sutton
- West Sutton
- Sutton Common
- St Helier
- Morden South
- South Merton
- Wimbledon Chase
- Wimbledon
- Haydens Road
- Tooting
The following stations will have no London Overground train service for seven days between Saturday 26 and Friday 1 November inclusive:
- Queens Road Peckham
- Peckham Rye
- Denmark Hill
- Clapham High Street
- Wandsworth Road
The following station will have no London Overground service for four days between Saturday 26 and Tuesday 29 October inclusive:
- Crystal Palace
Replacement buses will only run between London Bridge and Streatham Common, via Peckham Rye and Tulse Hill. Paper tickets will be accepted on London Buses for all other routes.
From Saturday 26 to Tuesday 29 October there will be an London Overground amended service on routes between Highbury and Islington and West Croydon and New Cross. From Wednesday, October 30, to Friday, November 1, some Crystal Palace and New Cross services will be re-timed.
On October, 26, 28 and 29 an additional two trains per hours will operate between Highbury and Islington and West Croydon.