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Tag Archives: Victoria Station
No rail services to or from Victoria this weekend due to works
Engineering work is taking place at Victoria Station this weekend, Saturday November 18 and Sunday November 19. There will be no Southern services to or from Victoria, and no Gatwick Express service at all. Replacement buses will run between Clapham … Continue reading
Victoria bus station to close for safety works for six weeks
The busy and often crowded bus station outside Victoria Station is to close on Monday for about six weeks for urgent safety works, causing significant disruption for commuters and other travellers going into London over the Christmas period for shopping, … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, TfL, Transport
Tagged Southern Railways, TfL, Transport for London, Victoria Bus Station, Victoria Station
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Strike-free weekend – and Network Rail shuts down Victoria
The railway network in the capital is clear of any industrial action this weekend. But Transport for London has issued a warning to passengers because there will be no Southern or Gatwick Express services to and from Victoria Station. “During … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Transport
Tagged #SouthernFail, ASLEF, East Croydon station, Network Rail, RMT union, Southern, Southern Rail, Victoria Station
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Rail works to cut off Purley and East Croydon for rest of month
Rail passengers in south London and the south-east, after having had direct journeys into Victoria closed off during December and January, now face nine days later this month when routes to the south of the Brighton Main Line are shut … Continue reading
Govia now announces train cancellations ‘until further notice’
Insiders suspect that poor driver recruitment and a desire to avoid fines are behind the latest service cancellations. PLUS: Full details of the Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express cancelled services Commuters, shoppers and tourists wanting to travel into central London … Continue reading
Southern shut down Victoria Station services for extra week
Southern has cancelled all trains to and from Victoria Station until mid-January, citing pandemic-related staff shortages as its reason. This comes on top of the planned closures from Christmas Eve until Jan4 for engineering and signalling upgrades. No Southern services … Continue reading
No train services to Victoria Station for 10 days after Christmas
There will be no rail services between East Croydon, Streatham, Clapham Junction and Victoria from Christmas Day until Monday January 3, as major track and signalling work is carried out. After Boxing Day, there will be a (reduced and covid-affected) … Continue reading
Posted in Commuting, East Croydon, TfL, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged East Croydon, Network Rail, Southern Railway, TfL, Transport for London, Victoria Station, West Croydon
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Fraud squad sent in over £25m Southeastern ‘breach of faith’
Govia, the rail operators who run the Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express franchises through East Croydon, have been stripped of their Southeastern operation and face a possible Serious Fraud Office investigation into the withholding of £25million of payments going back … Continue reading
Weekend rail services into Victoria to be disrupted until June
Tomorrow will see the start of a near-two-year programme of signalling engineering works on the railway lines into Victoria Station which will see services into the London terminus from East Croydon cancelled or diverted on eight weekends through until June. … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon, East Croydon station, Network Rail, Victoria Station
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£150m property deal could spell end for Victoria Coach Station
Londoners who have for decades benefited from having the capital’s coach travel hub based centrally, look set to suffer a massive inconvenience at the start of their journeys in future, if the land owners get their way and flog off … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, TfL, Transport
Tagged TfL, Transport for London, Victoria Coach Station, Victoria Station
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Victoria Station faces 12-day shutdown over Christmas period
Christmas is a’coming, just not by train (again). If you’re planning on going anywhere in central London over the end-of-year period, you might as well as forget trying to do so by train, as Southern has announced a host of … Continue reading
Posted in East Croydon, Transport
Tagged East Croydon station, Gatwick Express, Southern Rail, Victoria Station
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