PASSENGERS are being advised to plan their journeys ahead of the late May bank holiday with planned engineering work taking place on the West Coast Main Line.
Work will take place to replace sections of track and overhead electric cables and maintain bridges, tunnels and trackside equipment on the route between London Euston and Cumbria. It will include improvements to overhead electric lines in Cumbria and track foundation cleaning in Carlisle
Martin Frobisher, managing director of Network Rail’s London North Western route, said: “We recognise there is never an ideal time to shut the railway for our must-do work.
"Bank holidays are the least disruptive time to do it, when fewer passengers use the railway compared to the working week. "That way we can do the maximum amount of work while impacting the fewest people. Sometimes a closure is the only way we can carry out major work like replacing track or improvements to overhead electric lines.
“Train companies and Network Rail have worked together to minimise disruption for customers by doing a lot of work over the recent bank holidays. The alternative would have been closing the line over multiple weekends throughout the summer.”
Ahead of the May 25-27 Whitsun bank holiday, passengers are being advised to plan their journeys at www.nationalrail.co.uk.
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