Key changes to Southern

 

Services between East Grinstead and London Victoria – Wednesdays

To make it easier for people to travel during the middle of the day, services between East Grinstead and London Victoria will now be half-hourly during the middle of the day on Wednesdays.

This follows the improvements made last December, which increase the off-peak service on Thursdays and Fridays.

Services between London Victoria, Gatwick Airport and Three bridges

To provide a later last train and improve connections, the 00:08 Southern service from London Victoria to Gatwick Airport will be extended to Three Bridges.

Extra call for Cooden Beach Station – Monday to Friday

To improve connections at Cooden Beach, the 05:00 from Brighton to Ore will now call at Cooden Beach at 06:01 before continuing towards Ore.

Southern network wide

There will be small timing changes to services across the Southern network to improve punctuality.

 

 

Key changes to Thameslink

 

There are small timing changes to a small number of trains – focused on services between Sutton and St Albans – to improve punctuality and connections.

 

Key changes to Gatwick Express

 

There are no significant changes to Gatwick Express services.

 

Changes to platform usage at East Croydon in the evening peak

 

From May, we will be making changes to the platforms at East Croydon that services are planned to use in the evening peak to improve the punctuality of services passing through this busy station and reduce the number of short-notice platform alternations.

This will mean that in the evening peak, between 16:00 and 19:00, Southern services from London Victoria towards Eastbourne/Ore, Littlehampton and Portsmouth Harbour will depart from Platform 2, rather than Platform 3.

Passengers who would usually make a same platform connection between Thameslink services towards Brighton and those Southern services towards the south coast at East Croydon will need to change platforms or make a same island platform connection at a station such as Haywards Heath.

 

Temporary changes to services over school holidays

 

In addition to improving the timetable from May, we are building on the approach taken in previous school holidays by temporarily aligning some of our services with the changes in usage that we see over holidays periods.

Over the summer school holiday – between mid-July and the end of August – customers could see a combination of earlier trains running between Gatwick Airport and London Victoria to make it easier for holiday makers to travel by train, more services during the middle of the day for some stations to make it easier for people to go on days out. A small number of services will also be withdrawn on some routes where the number of peak time or off-peak passengers falls over the school holidays.

As changes vary route to route, and services will also be amended on bank holidays or to support planned engineering work, we encourage you to check before you travel.

Journey Planners are updated with alterations to services 12 weeks in advance so you can check your journeys, and more information on the changes to trains over the summer school holiday will be published on our website closer to the time.