During August rail improvement works, Great Western Railway services are set to be disrupted in the North Cotswolds area.
Services will be impacted from the 18th until the 24th of August while work goes underway.
The work will see Network Rail complete track renewals and other essential maintenance works which have been affecting services between Moreton-in-Marsh and Worcester Shrub Hill.
The work means that no trains can run between the above stations, and rail replacement buses will replace services.
Services will still be running outside of the blockade, and only CrossCountry trains will be stopping at Worcestershire Parkway during the work.
Further information on the disruption and service availability can be found online.
“This forms part of an ongoing programme of maintenance, helping to ensure we can continue to provide consistent and reliable services.
“We’ll provide replacement road transport between Moreton-in-Marsh, Honeybourne, Evesham, Pershore, Worcestershire Parkway and Worcester Shrub Hill.
“Trains still run between Moreton-in Marsh and London Paddington, via Oxford, plus a few direct trains will run between Hereford and London Paddington, via Cheltenham Spa.
“Other train services will be operating between Worcester Shrub Hill or Worcester Foregate Street stations and Hereford during this period.
“As an alternative, Transport for Wales also operate trains between Hereford and Newport for connections to Didcot Parkway, Reading and London Paddington.
“Customers should also be aware these alternative travel arrangements will make journey times much longer, so please plan ahead.”
Billy White, GWR Station Manager for Oxford, Didcot and North Cotswolds area
Responses
What brilliant planning by Network Rail to have engineering works at the same time as one of the biggest events in the Cotswolds calendar. Namely the Big Feastival at Alex James Farm at Kingham. Anyone planning to use the train from Worcestershire are now stuffed. Thanks a lot for mucking up my weekend.