People heading to Wembley to see Bruce Springsteen this weekend have been warned of a railway line closure. The American rock star will be performing in concert at Wembley Stadium on Saturday (July 27).
Network Rail has advised that an enhanced timetable will be in operation during the afternoon and evening, with additional Wembley Stadium stops in trains, and also some additional trains. Services are set to be busier than usual due to additional passengers travelling because of engineering work between Oxford and Didcot.
A reduced service of one train per hour will operate between Marylebone and Aylesbury Vale Parkway between 12pm and 8pm. After 8pm, rail replacement buses will serve customers, connecting with trains to/from Marylebone at Beaconsfield.
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The buses will operate as follows: Beaconsfield – Amersham – Great Missenden – Wendover – Stoke Mandeville – Aylesbury – Aylesbury Vale Parkway.
More than £9 million works
Chiltern Railways passengers are being urged to check before they travel ahead of the five-day closure while Network Rail completes ‘vital improvement work’ at the end of the month. As part of more than £9 million programme, experts will work around the clock between Saturday and Wednesday, July 31, to replace a bridge which carries the railway over the River Cherwell in King’s Sutton near Banbury.
During the rail closure engineers will lift a new 240-tonne bridge deck into place using two special rail-mounted ‘Kirow’ cranes. Network Rail says that, once complete, the work will ‘keep the structure safe and reliable for passengers and freight services for decades to come’.
South London bridge repairs
In addition, work to Barnes Bridge in Richmond on Thames will mean that the railway line between Kew Bridge and Barnes will be closed with buses replacing trains from Sunday, July 28, to Friday, August 2. During this time, engineers will be replacing all 48 wooden wheel timbers, which are the long blocks that support the tracks across the bridge with Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane (FFU) alternatives.
Changes to train services:
- Sunday, July 28, only – no trains between Feltham and Barnes via Hounslow
- Monday, July 29, to Friday, August 2 – no trains between Kew Bridge and Barnes
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