Rail misery set for Easter weekend

London Midland services between Bescot Stadium and Rugeley Town will be closed from Good Friday, April 3, until Tuesday, April 7.

Buses replace trains between Tame Bridge Parkway and Walsall and Rugeley Trent Valley because of electrification work being done by Network Rail. There will also be issues on the West Coast Main Line.

The Easter work will see some sections of lines shut, with buses replacing trains on some routes.

One of the biggest projects is at Reading in Berkshire while another big scheme, at Watford in Hertfordshire, will mean disruption to journeys in and out of Euston station in London.

There will also be disruption to trains in and out of London's Liverpool Street station, while other areas where services will be disrupted include Dorking in Surrey, Crewe in Cheshire, between Lancaster and Carlisle and between Peterborough and Ely.

On Easter Sunday, Virgin Trains between London Euston and Birmingham New Street or Crewe will run between Northampton and Birmingham New Street or Crewe only. Until 10am, replacement buses will operate between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central and Northampton and after 10am replacement buses will operate between London Euston and Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes Central, Northampton, with an hourly train service running between Hemel Hempstead and Milton Keynes Central.