Landslip closes railway to Guildford
December 21, 2024
The line between Guildford and Effingham Junction will close on 21 December
Due to a landslip, the rail line between Effingham and Guildford will be closed for emergency engineering works. The line is scheduled to re-open on 27th December.During the closure, to stabilise and strengthen the embankment, 50 sheet piles - 8m (26.2ft) long sheets of meta...
Network Rail Southern Region Newsletter
November 30, 2024
November Newsletter to Stakeholders
Welcome to November's stakeholder newsletter for the Wessex Route. November is almost over and with Christmas and the new year rapidly approaching, Network Rail are giving you a lookahead to their Christmas works and what they have planned for the start of 2...
Green Lane Crossing - New Gates
October 18, 2024
Concerns raised on Ashtead Unhinged corrected by Network Rail
Following concerns raised on Ashtead Unhinged and subsequent letters of concern to Network Rail, new latches have been fitted to the tops of the new gates making them more secure. In addition, the self-closing hinge mechanism seems to have been adjusted to ensure the gates c...
Southern & Thameslink Line Closures
October 9, 2024
Major engineering work will be taking place later this month that will affect some Southern ‘Metro’ and Thameslink services in south London, as well as sections of the London Overground network.The work will mean no trains will run on parts of the rail network for up to ...
Green Lane Crossing - The saga continues!
September 17, 2024
What now you ask?
At the Local Committee back in 2021 Councillors agreed that the Definitive Statement should be changed to match the Definitive Map so that it showed the Crossing as a Public Right of Way. It has been so for decades going back to even before the railway was built in the 19th ...