Gospel Oak Line NOT closed for engineering on Bank Holiday

Remarkably the Barking - Gospel Oak line is NOT closed for engineering works on Monday 31 August, but will be running a Saturday timetable.

That's just about the only bit of good news. According to the BARKING-GOSPEL OAK LINE USER GROUP

"the work on the Barking-Gospel Oak Line is running late and is now expected to end this autumn ... 'BGOLUG welcomes the work, which will provide signalling that can handle four passenger and four freight trains per hour but thanks to Network Rail’s inordinate delays, changing contractors at the last minute, instead of being finished this weekend we have another three months of weekend closures and replacement buses to endure. Meanwhile, our weekday trains are packed solid in the peak periods and the new trains and 15-minute frequency service promised by Transport for London (TfL) for September have slipped back into next year'.