The East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) is a landmark scheme that will introduce in-cab digital signalling on the southern part of the East Coast Main Line, between London King’s Cross and Grantham.
Major upgrades affecting train services on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November
As work continues to modernise the railway’s signalling system, services on the East Coast Main Line will be significantly impacted on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 November.
Journeys to and from London will take considerably longer than normal and passengers are advised to check before they travel.
How will passenger services be impacted?
Grand Central
There will be no Grand Central services.
Hull Trains
Hull Trains will be running an amended train service which will divert to run to and from London St Pancras International.
LNER
LNER will be operating an amended service starting and terminating at Peterborough (some services will start/terminate at Doncaster). Rail replacement coaches will run between Peterborough and Bedford, where customers can join Thameslink or EMR services to London St Pancras.
NB - Passengers traveling between the North and London are strongly advised to use LNER services to and from Peterborough and apply a search filter to specify travel via Peterborough. Please avoid travelling via Sheffield, Derby or Chesterfield if possible due to extremely high customer numbers on this route
Lumo
Lumo will operate an amended services between Edinburgh and Newcastle only.
Great Northern and Thameslink
There will be no Thameslink or Great Northern trains between Potters Bar and Peterborough / Royston, or between Hertford North and Stevenage.
Please see the full service summary below.
No trains will run between:
- Potters Bar and Peterborough
- Potters Bar and Royston
- Hertford North and Stevenage
A rail replacement bus service will run between:
- Potters Bar and Hitchin
- Hitchin and Royston
- Hertford North and Stevenage
- St Albans City and Hitchin via Hatfield
- Luton Airport Parkway and Stevenage via Hitchin
- St Neots and Bedford
- Hitchin and Peterborough
Trains will run between:
- Royston and Cambridge / Kings Lynn
- London King’s Cross and Potters Bar
- Moorgate / Finsbury Park and Potters Bar / Hertford North
About the East Coast Digital Programme
Work on the East Coast Main Line is taking place as part of the Government-funded transformational East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP), that will see state-of-the-art digital signalling introduced, providing continuous, real-time information to the driver’s cab. This is aimed at improving reliability for passengers, while also reducing emissions. The digital technology is already being used on Great Northern passenger services between Finsbury Park and Moorgate in London.
If you would like to know more about ECDP please visit the East Coast Digital Programme