Rail revamp closes line for 14 weeks

TRAIN services between Gospel Oak and Stratford are to close for 14 weeks.

Passengers, who number more than 17,000 a day, will have to use a bus service instead.

The old North London line - now London Overground and operated by Transport for London - will close between the two stations on Saturday 20 February and not reopen until Saturday 1 June.

During that time TfL will carry out signalling and track renewal, platform lengthening and station refurbishments.

Replacement buses will run every 20 minutes six days a week. On Sundays this will be reduced to two buses an hour.

Ian Brown, managing director for TfL London Rail, said: "This was one of the most neglected railways in the UK when we took it over two years ago and these are essential works."