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East Coast Digital Programme Upgrade Work

The East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) is a landmark scheme that will introduce in-cab digital signalling on the southern part of the East Coast Main Line, between London King’s Cross and Grantham

Major upgrades affecting train services on Saturday 28 November and Sunday 29 November

Due to both ECDP signalling upgrade work and other essential railway engineering work, services on the East Coast Main Line will be significantly impacted on Saturday 28 November and Sunday 29 November.

Journeys to and from London will take considerably longer than normal and we advise you to check before you travel.

How will passenger services be impacted?

Grand Central

There will be no Grand Central services.

Hull Trains

Hull Trains will be running an amended train service which will divert to run to and from London St Pancras International.

LNER

There will be no direct LNER trains to or from London King’s Cross. LNER services will start/terminate at Peterborough, with frequent rail replacement coach services operating between Peterborough and Bedford, for Thameslink services into/out of London St Pancras.

If you are travelling between the north east, Yorkshire and London, we strongly advise you to apply a search filter to specify travel via Peterborough or Bedford when searching for tickets. Journeys with changes at Sheffield, Nottingham or Cambridge are expected to be extremely busy and we would advise against travelling on these routes where possible, as you may not be able to get a seat or board certain trains.

On Saturday 28 November, a limited LNER service (2 trains in either direction) will also operate between Newcastle and Bedford, also connecting with direct Thameslink services to London St Pancras. This allows customers to complete the full journey by train without the use of a rail replacement coach.

Lumo

Lumo will operate an amended service between Newcastle and Edinburgh/Glasgow only.

Thameslink and Great Northern

No trains will run between Moorgate / London St Pancras International / London King’s Cross and Letchworth Garden City / Peterborough all weekend.

A shuttle train service will run between Letchworth Garden City and Cambridge / Ely / Kings Lynn.

Rail replacement buses will run between:

  • Bedford and Peterborough via St Neots / Huntingdon

  • Hitchin and Peterborough, calling at all stations

  • Hitchin and Letchworth Garden City

  • Alexandra Palace and Stevenage via Hertford North, calling at all stations

  • St Albans City and Stevenage, calling at Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn North and Knebworth

  • Alexandra Palace and Welwyn Garden City, calling at New Southgate, Oakleigh Park, New Barnet, Cockfosters (London Underground), Potters Bar, Brookmans Park, Welham Green and Hatfield

  • Cockfosters and Potters Bar via Hadley Wood

About the East Coast Digital Programme

Work on the East Coast Main Line is taking place as part of the Government-funded transformational East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP), that will see state-of-the-art digital signalling introduced, providing continuous, real-time information to the driver’s cab. This is aimed at improving reliability for passengers, while also reducing emissions. The digital technology is already being used on Great Northern passenger services between Finsbury Park and Moorgate in London, and has now been introduced between Welwyn Garden City and Hitchin on the East Coast Main Line.

If you would like to know more about ECDP please visit the East Coast Digital Programme website(external link, opens in a new tab).

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