Passengers are being asked to plan ahead and leave plenty of time for travel between Friday, 3 to Monday, 6 April.

Trains between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction will run a reduced service as engineers carry out essential track and bridge work. 

Sections of track used by services to Reading, Weybridge (via Staines), and Windsor & Eton Riverside will be replaced, so these trains will start and terminate at Clapham Junction instead of Waterloo.

Services to Woking and Basingstoke will continue, but passengers are advised to check before travelling due to additional engineering work in Eastleigh and Honiton.

Work includes replacing track switches and crossings near platforms 20-24 at Waterloo, strengthening the railway bridge over Lambeth Road, and installing a protective scaffold crash deck at Clapham Junction’s footbridge (for platforms 3 -6) to allow further upgrades while trains remain in operation.

Over the weekend, trains to Reading, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Weybridge, and via Richmond & Kingston will start and finish at Clapham Junction, with passengers able to change here to reach Waterloo. Queenstown Road (Battersea) station will be closed for the entire period.

On Sunday, 5 April, the line closure extends to Barnes, with some services diverted via Wimbledon and Twickenham.

Replacement buses will run between Clapham Junction and Barnes, stopping at Wandsworth Town and Putney, and services to Hampton Court will not operate on this day.

 “We are asking passengers to check before they travel as services from London Waterloo are changing over the Easter weekend. London Waterloo is one of the busiest stations in the country, switches and crossings are heavily used and need to be replaced over time.

Carrying out this work will help give our passengers a more reliable railway as well as smoother journeys for years to come.”

George Murrell, Route Renewals Director.