No trains today - June 25th ED Station

[Otto]

Just walked by the station and it is roped off for maintenance - no trains today...anyone know if this is tomorrow as well??? Can't find any updates on TFL rail...they are saying all is good...

[peterstorm1985]

National rail

Always better to refer to the National rail site for info on trains. Buses tomorrow

[Otto]

thanks - just went there after I typed...bah.

[Jeremy]

Weekend closures have been a regular occurrence for as long as I've lived here. You can't rely on trains at all at the weekends. And people wander why we want to keep our cars...

[Applespider]

Railway closures are often like buses - you get none and then you get a year or so where they come along every month or so. It's not entirely surprising given that if they're replacing sleepers/rails, there's a limit to how much they can do in an overnight period and presumably the entire line needs checked to avoid emergencies. But with capacity as it is during the week with us demanding earlier/later trains, the overnight window has got shorter and shorter. The RR buses did seem to be running pretty frequently though so although it's a bit longer, at least people could get places.

Anyone who keeps a car just for the one weekend in x that the trains are running would be nuts though. By the time you covered insurance/maintenance for the weekends the trains were running, you'd be cheaper getting a cab wherever you wanted on that weekend.