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More Disruption For Rail Users Between King's Lynn, Cambridge And London

Further changes are being introduced on the rail route from Monday, while work takes place to repair track defects.

The earlier prolonged spell of dry weather has caused the peaty ground beneath the track along the Fen Line between Cambridge and King's Lynn to shrink, affecting the track above.

Network Rail has introduced speed restrictions to allow a rail service to run safely and to prevent further damage to the track. Engineers have been realigning the track over the last four weeks which has enabled speed restrictions to be removed in some areas but not enough to run the full timetable reliably.

In order to complete the work as quickly as possible, and minimise disruption to passengers, a decision has today been taken jointly by Network Rail and GTR that the line will close early at 20:45 each weekday evening, Mondays to Fridays up to and including Tuesday 4 October. Last trains will run from King's Lynn and Ely around 20:00.

The expectation is this will remove the worst speed restrictions and restore normal through services from King's Lynn to London from Wednesday 5 October, although this will be subject to final checks.

Jenny Saunders, Customer Services Director for Great Northern and Thameslink, said: "We’re sorry for the continued changes we’re having to make to our rail service between Kings Lynn, Cambridge and London but it is absolutely essential to ensure the continued safe running of our trains and to give our customers a dependable service.

"We'll continue not running some of our trains between London and Cambridge or Ely in the meantime, which will make other services busier, and passengers for stations along the route to King's Lynn will have to continue changing at Cambridge until the direct service can be restored.”

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