Gatwick airport is going to be shut down from London by rail for the following three Sundays.
Engineering work is taking place on 25th February, 4th March and 11th March to replace a crucial junction at Earlswood. Here, the fast and slow lines to the airport converge. It is actually a part of a £300 metre track modernization program.
Services would conclude on Saturday night re-start around 4 a.m. on Monday morning.
David Bennett who is the surface transport operations manager of Gatwick mentioned that passengers have been planning to travel to or from Gatwick Airport via train during any of the next three Sundays must plans their journeys cautiously and permit additional time.
On the affected days, trains to and from London would start and terminate at Redhill that is six miles north of Gatwick and there would be a buss connection to the airport.
Overall journey times would probably rise by at least half-an-hour.
National Express is planning extra coach services during the rail blockade. The London-Brighton main lone on which Gatwick is situated is undergoing a major overhaul.
Furthermore, work would also be taking place between Gatwick and Three Bridges, the station south of the airport over the bank holiday weekend of May. In the next 12 months the line from Three Bridges to Brighton would be completely shut down for 18 days, from 20th to 28th October and 16th to 24th February 2019 for work to repair tunnels on the line.
From May this year a brand new direct Thameslink services would commence from Gatwick to both Cambridge and Peterborough for the first time.
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