Peterborough - Complete

The £43 million Redevelopment of Peterborough Railway Station has been completed! The last piece of the puzzle was testing and installing a new signal system.

East Coast routes to London and the North, FirstCapitalConnect services to London, East Midlands routes to Norwich and Liverpool via Manchester/Nottingham, as well as Greater Anglia services to Ipswich, all serve the station and will be affected over the coming days.

Peterborough transports more than 4 million passengers each year. These works will meet demand of services by adding a further 2 platforms, have a freight lane to limit delays to passenger routes (positioned next to new platform 6), and lengthening all platforms.

Platform 2 will now become the new platform 1 (east coast), platform 3 the new 2 (first capital connect to London Kings Cross), a new platform 3 for east coast routes to London. Platform 4 and 5 will stay the same, now used for mainly east coast routes.

Platform 6 is a new platform built as added support especially for east Midlands route to Norwich and greater Anglia route to Ipswich, platform 7 will be the new platform for East Midlands services to Manchester and Liverpool.

Phil Verster, route managing director at Network Rail, said: "We look forward to passengers experiencing the benefits of the improved station following the Christmas break. We recognise there is never a good time to carry out work which disrupts passengers and we thank everyone in advance for their patience and understanding on the day."
East Coast commercial and customer service director, Peter Williams said: "The essential work planned by Network Rail for Peterborough will enable us to offer more services and a more reliable railway in 2014 and beyond. The work has been timed for two days when trains aren’t running, plus a third day when experience shows fewer people travel compared with a normal weekday. We appreciate any short-term disruption to travel plans isn’t welcome, but the work on Friday 27 December will help to build a bigger and better railway. We’re advising passengers intending to travel south of Grantham on Friday 27 December that if they can, it would be best to travel on another day. We’ll run regular services throughout the day on 27 December between Grantham and Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland, and so those only using services north of Grantham won’t be affected."

First Capital Connect customer service director, Keith Jipps said, "Buses will replace our trains all day between Peterborough and Huntingdon and our services are expected to be much busier than normal with passengers displaced from East Coast services. Please bear with us and allow longer than normal for your journey."

^Harry
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