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The electricity has been being switched off for safety reasons between Salford Crescent and Deansgate. As a result, Northern train services running between Manchester Oxford Road and Salford Crescent may be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or diverted into Manchester Victoria. 

Disruption is expected until 16:30.

Customer Advice:

Customers are able to use there train ticket between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria on Metrolink trams.

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The trespass incident at Birmingham New Street has been resolved. However, whilst service recovers, trains may continue to delayed by up to 20 minutes or revised.

We anticipate that disruption will continue until 15:45.

Alternative travel advice:

London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway 

Customers may use National Express West Midlands on reasonable routes.

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All lines have now reopened following Flooding between Swindon and Bristol Parkway, trains running through these stations are returning to normal but some services may still be cancelled. 

Disruption is expected until 17:00.

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Flooding between Bolton and Preston is causing disruption to journeys between these stations. Trains may be cancelled, delayed or revised.

We anticipate that disruption will continue until 16:30.

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A member of train crew is currently unavailable between Worcester Shrub Hill and Birmingham Snow Hill. As a result, some services between these stations will be cancelled.

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

Alternative travel advice

You may use your ticket on the following operators services:

• West Midlands Metro on the following route - Birmingham Grand Central - Corporation Street - Bull Street - Snow Hill (for Snow Hill Station) - Jewellery Quarter - The Hawthorns - West Bromwich Central 
• National Express West Midlands
  - Route 4 / 4H / 4M: Walsall - Tame Bridge Parkway - West Bromwich (for West Midlands Metro) - Oldbury - Blackheath - Sandwell & Dudley - Rowley Regis - Cradley Heath.
  - Route 8A / 8C: Duddeston (nearby) - Adderley Park - Small Heath - Five Ways (for Birmingham New Street / CrossCity) - Hockley
  - Route 9 [Black Country]: Birmingham - Halesowen Interchange - Cradley Heath (nearby) - Lye - Stourbridge Town
  - Route 12 / 12A: Birmingham - Langley Green - Dudley
  - Route 13 [Birmingham]: Birmingham - Langley Green
  - Route 16 [Black Country]: Wolverhampton - Stourbridge
  - Route 17 [Dudley]: Dudley - Stourbridge
  - Route 80: Birmingham - Five Ways - Smethwick Galton Bridge - West Bromwich
  - Route 87: Birmingham - Smethwick Rolfe Street (nearby) - Smethwick Galton Bridge - Oldbury (nearby to Sandwell & Dudley) - Dudley
  - Route X10: Birmingham - Old Hill - Cradley Heath - Merry Hill
  - Route X7: Wolverhampton - Dudley - Smethwick Rolfe Street (nearby) - Smethwick Galton Bridge - Birmingham
  - Route X8: Wolverhampton - Dudley - Bearwood - Birmingham (nearby New Street and Snow Hill Station)

There is no ticket acceptance agreed with local bus operators between Stourbridge Junction and Worcester. If you are travelling between these stations and wish to use local buses, please keep any receipts as you may be able to claim some reimbursement from West Midlands Railway. Please note that West Midlands Railway will review claims on a case by case basis.  

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Signalling problems mean that some Greater Anglia rural routes are currently being disrupted.

You can find a statement about the disruption from Greater Anglia here.

There is no estimate for when this issue will be resolved.

The following routes are affected:

Ipswich - Peterborough

Trains will not run on the Ipswich - Peterborough route.

Customers travelling between Ipswich and Peterborough can travel via Norwich. Customers can also travel via Cambridge.

Tickets will be accepted on Great Northern between Cambridge and Ely, and also with East Midlands Railway between Ely and Peterborough.

'Greater Anglia' only tickets are not valid on CrossCountry trains between Cambridge, Ely and Peterborough.

There are minibuses operated by Blue Fox and St Edmunds Travel running between Ely and Peterborough calling at Manea, March and Whittlesea.

Ipswich - Lowestoft

A reduced service will operate between Ipswich and Lowestoft.

Customers may use First Buses between Lowestoft and Beccles on routes x2, x21 and x22.

Norwich - Sheringham

A reduced service will run between Norwich and Cromer only, and journeys may also be delayed by up to 20 minutes.

Buses provided by Sanders Coaches will run between Cromer and Sheringham.

The last services of the day (22:45 Norwich to Sheringham / 23:47 Sheringham to Norwich) will run as scheduled.

Customers may also use Sanders Coaches on routes 44, 44a, x44 and x40.

Norwich - Great Yarmouth

There are a small number of cancellations on this route.

Alternative travel advice:

Advance tickets holders can travel on earlier or later trains if your booked service is cancelled.

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You can find the location of your bus replacement by checking station signs or by searching for your station on our station information pages

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The RMT union are taking industrial action, which will affect South Western Railway services until Thursday 2 January.

Industrial action means fewer trains, earlier finishes and some replacement buses on South Western Railway throughout December. You can find more information here.

Information for customers travelling on weekdays, until Friday 20 December:

On weekdays until Friday 20 December, a reduced service will run:

• Some routes will not have a train service or a replacement bus service
• Services will finish earlier than normal at around 23:00
• Peak services will be much busier than normal, and queuing arrangements may be put in place at busy stations
• Please check your journey before travelling and allow extra time to complete your journey. The Journey Planner is now showing the revised strike timetable

More information and timetables can be found here.

Information for customers travelling on weekends, until Sunday 22 December:

On Saturdays and Sundays in December a reduced service will run on most of the network. Some routes will not have a train service or a replacement bus service.

You can find the details for each route on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 December here. Details for Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December are still being finalised.

Information for customers travelling over the Christmas period:

Although plans are still being finalised, for the period from 23 December to 2 January a reduced service will be in operation.

There will be no trains on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, as is always the case.

Details of the reduced service, and strike timetables can be found here.

Check before you travel:
You can use the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner to check your journey up to and including Friday 20 December. The normal planned service, not the strike day service, is currently showing for all the other strike dates.

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The new timetable will start on Sunday 15 December 2019 and will operate until Saturday 16 May 2020.

Please see below for details of the changes that have been made to the timetable from December 2019 onwards:

Caledonian Sleeper

Timetables are available here.

Chiltern Railways

The direct Stratford-Upon-Avon to London services introduced back in May will carry forward for the December timetable so that hassle-free day trips can still be enjoyed. The timetable also sees an additional service from Aylesbury Vale Parkway to London on Saturday morning.

The new timetable is available here.

CrossCountry

Improvements to CrossCountry services in the December timetable include:

• The current 17 minutes past the hour departures from Birmingham New Street to Plymouth move to 12 minutes past the hour – restoring a half-hourly train service from Birmingham New Street to Bristol
• Following improvements resulting from the major track remodelling at Derby, four weekday and five Saturday trains between Birmingham and Newcastle will run considerably faster, taking up to 30 minutes less time than currently
• Trains on CrossCountry routes will be re-timed in the new timetable, with many faster journeys. Please check departure times carefully

East Midlands Railway

Additional services will run between Kettering and Corby, as well as new winter services on routes to Skegness and Cleethorpes.

The new timetables are available here.

Grand Central

The full timetable from December 2019 is available here.

Great Northern

New Southgate and Oakleigh Park will see an extra two trains towards Moorgate per hour, creating a six trains per hour to London service during the morning peak. The entire Great Northern Metro timetable will be optimised for the performance of the new train fleet in May 2020.

Due to Network Rail maintenance between Finsbury Park and Moorgate, the last weekday departure from Moorgate will be the 21:40 service to Watton-at-Stone. Later departures on the Great Northern Metro routes to Welwyn Garden City and Watton-at-Stone will depart from London Kings Cross.

On weekends, all Great Northern Metro services from Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage via Hertford North will be diverted into London Kings Cross. However, during planned weekend engineering work at London Kings Cross, Moorgate will be made available wherever possible to provide an alternative route.

Great Western Railway

Around three quarters of journey times will be different from how they are today as Great Western Railway add new services and change old ones as part of the improvements.

Trains will arrive and depart at different times – there will be more trains, with more seats but to allow the new timetable to work, train times will be different to today.

Trains won’t always stop at the stations they do today – journeys will be faster, but new services are being introduced, and they won't always stop at the places frequent travellers might be used to.

You can find more information by visiting www.gwr.com/timetable2019

Greater Anglia / Stansted Express

New hourly direct services will run between Stansted Airport and Norwich via Cambridge and Cambridge North, seven days a week.

New direct services will run between Cambridge North and London Liverpool Street via Cambridge, seven days a week.

New hourly direct services will run between Cambridge and Ipswich on Sundays.

These services will be supported by Greater Anglia’s introduction of brand new trains. The timetables from 15 December 2019 onwards are available here.

Hull Trains

The new timetable from 15 December 2019 onwards is available to download here.

Island Line

Some train times may be retimed.

London Northwestern Railway

London Northwestern Railway are investing £524m to make the service better - better stations, better journeys, better trains. The latest improvements include the following:

• 4 carriages will be added to the Friday late night / early morning 00:05 departure from London Euston to Northampton
• London Euston - Rugeley Trent Valley trains, via Birmingham will become London Euston - Walsall services
• New direct Sunday trains between Liverpool Lime Street and London Euston, via Birmingham New Street, Birmingham International, Coventry
• Most departures times will change at Bletchley, particularly connections from the mainline onto the Marston Vale Line in the evening peak
• New fast trains from Northampton to London Euston during the evening peak on weekdays

To see what's changing at your station please check here.

London North Eastern Railway

LNER will run new Azuma services between Harrogate and London Kings Cross. The Yorkshire spa town will benefit from an extra five new services each day. Horsforth will also benefit from additional LNER services.

London Kings Cross - Newcastle services will be extended to run to and from Edinburgh.

London Overground

The new London Overground timetables are available here.

Northern

The following timetable changes have been announced:

• New hourly service between Halifax and Hull via Bradford, Leeds and Selby, extending the Leeds – Selby service
• The Huddersfield – Leeds via Halifax and Bradford hourly service will operate between Huddersfield and Bradford Interchange only. With other timing changes, there will be a 15 minute interval service from Leeds to Bradford and Halifax
• On Sundays, the Blackpool North – Leeds service will be extended to operate to and from York
• Wigan – Alderley Edge and Wigan – Stalybridge services will be extended to operate from and to Southport, providing an all day hourly service between Southport and Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly, as well as between Southport and Manchester Victoria.
• The current services between Southport and Leeds via Todmorden and between Southport and Blackburn via Todmorden will instead start and terminate at Wigan
• An hourly all day through service will be restored between Manchester Victoria and Kirkby via Wigan
• Sheffield – Hull – Bridlington fast services will be extended from and to Scarborough. York – Hull and Hull – Bridlington services will be joined, to provide a through York – Bridlington service. Sheffield – Hull stopping services will be split at Doncaster into separate Sheffield – Doncaster and Doncaster – Hull services
• There will be two new services a day in each direction between Middlesbrough and Whitby
• Manchester Piccadilly – New Mills Central trains will now serve Strines and Belle Vue stations hourly, rather than the current two hourly service
• A new station is planned to open at Warrington West, which will be served by two trains an hour, a Liverpool – Manchester Airport service and a Liverpool – Manchester Oxford Road service

ScotRail

ScotRail timetables from 15 December 2019 are available here

Southeastern

Southeastern's new timetable includes some small changes to keep trains running on time. The new timetables are available to download here.

South Western Railway

South Western Railway timetables are available to download here.

Southern

From Monday 16 December, Southern will introduce additional calls at Cooksbridge from Monday to Saturday. This will provide an all-day service in both directions and a Saturday service for the first time.

The , calling at Appledore and Ham Street will depart ten minutes earlier at 07:06 to provide a connection to Southeastern high speed services at the request of local stakeholders.

TfL Rail

From Sunday 15 December, TfL Rail will start running the stopping services between London Paddington and Reading ahead of the service becoming part of the Elizabeth Line. These services are currently operated by Great Western Railway. Some fast services will continue to be operated by Great Western Railway between Reading, Twyford, Maidenhead and Slough and London Paddington.

TfL zones do not apply to stations beyond West Drayton, but for the first time from 2 January 2020, customers will be able to use pay as you go with contactless across the route all the way from London Paddington to Reading. More information on these changes can be found here.

The timetable for journeys from London Paddington to Heathrow T4 / Reading can be found here

The timetable for journeys from London Liverpool Street to Shenfield can be found here

Thameslink

Connection of existing Saturday Horsham to London Bridge and Peterborough to London Kings Cross services

The existing Thameslink services between Horsham and London Bridge and between London Kings Cross and Peterborough will connect via London St Pancras International, Farringdon, City Thameslink and London Blackfriars, adopting the service pattern used Monday-Friday.

This change will introduce a new direct Gatwick Airport service on Saturdays for the first time for Peterborough, Huntingdon, St Neots, Sandy, Biggleswade and Arlesey.

For stations to the south of London Bridge, the change will mean additional direct services to London St Pancras International and beyond for East Croydon, Redhill, Horley and Gatwick Airport. It will also mean new direct services to the centre of London, London St Pancras International and beyond for Coulsdon South, Merstham, Crawley, Ifield, Littlehaven and Horsham.

Withdrawal of the Cambridge North Thameslink service

The Thameslink service between Cambridge and Cambridge North will be withdrawn to release a train path for the introduction of a new direct Greater Anglia service between Cambridge North and London Liverpool Street.

TransPennine Express

West Midlands Railway

Changes will include the following:

• From Birmingham towards Shrewsbury, trains that depart at 49 minutes past the hour from Birmingham will leave earlier at 34 minutes past the hour to give a better spread of trains
  An extra train every hour between Birmingham International and Birmingham New Street, Mondays to Saturdays, calling at all stations
• On the Hereford line there will be extra carriages
• New services at 05:53 from Lichfield City, and at 05:58 from Lichfield Trent Valley towards Birmingham.

To see what's changing at your station please check here.

Avanti West Coast, c2c, Gatwick Express, Heathrow Express and Merseyrail are not expected to change their timetable.

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A reduced service is in operation between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin due to a fault on one of the trains which serves the Island Line.

There is no firm estimate yet of how long this disruption will continue for.

What time will trains run?

Trains will run at the following times:

• Trains will depart from Shanklin at 18 minutes past the hour
• Trains will depart from Ryde Pier Head at 49 minutes past the hour

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The introduction of new trains as well as the timetable change means that a number of TransPennine Express services between Liverpool Lime Street and Newcastle / Edinburgh have been temporarily withdrawn from the timetable.

This affects some departures at the following stations – Liverpool Lime Street, Lea Green, Newton-le-Willows, Manchester Victoria, Stalybridge, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Leeds, York, Thirsk, Northallerton, Darlington, Durham, Chester-le-Street, Newcastle, Morpeth and Edinburgh.

Full information about these changes is available here.

Please note that some printed information will not reflect these late changes.

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