Updated with Video and Pics: Main line trains bypass York as Network Rail replaces track in the station
Teams from Network Rail are at work round the clock to deliver track improvements in and around York railway station.
It started on Christmas Eve and goes on until Monday 2 January 2023. The upgrade will see 2.7km of track renewed, as well as nine sets of points – the specialist piece of equipment which allows trains to move from one section of track to another.
Work will also take place to renew signalling equipment, as well as to improve specialist heaters on the track, which help melt snow and ice, keeping trains running reliably in the winter.
With changes to services over Christmas, passengers are urged to plan ahead via National Rail Enquiries or with their train operator.
Some bus replacement services will be in place, as well as trains being diverted around the station on the route that runs alongside the old carriage works.
Journeys are expected to take longer than usual. Most services will not be able to call at York. Others will start or terminate in the city.
Marygate car park will remain open as usual while this work takes place.
LNER Changes.
Tuesday 27 December – Friday 30 December
- There’ll be an hourly service each way between London King’s Cross and Newcastle/Scotland. These trains will travel on a diversionary route and will be unable to call at York.
- In addition, there will be one service each way every two hours between London King’s Cross and York and an hourly service each way between Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley.
- There will be a small number of northbound services from York.
- A rail replacement coach service will operate each way between York, Northallerton and Darlington.
Saturday 31 December
- There’ll be a half-hourly service each way between London King’s Cross and Newcastle/Scotland with most services not calling at York.
- There will be an additional service each way every two hours between Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley and between London King’s Cross and York.
- There will be a small number of northbound services from York.
- A rail replacement coach service will operate each way between York, Northallerton and Darlington.
Sunday 1 January
- Until 12:00, services to and from Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley will start from and terminate at Darlington.
- Services to and from London King’s Cross will start from and terminate at Doncaster. West Yorkshire services will operate as normal.
- From 12:00, there’ll be an hourly service each way between London King’s Cross and Newcastle/Scotland with most not calling at York.
- There’ll be an additional hourly service each way between Newcastle and Edinburgh Waverley and between London King’s Cross and York.
- There will be a small number of northbound services from York.
- A rail replacement coach service will operate each way between York, Northallerton and Darlington.
- LNER will not be operating trains between Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Aberdeen or Inverness.
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Northern changes.
Tuesday 27 December – Sunday 1 January
- Buses will replace trains between York and Poppleton between Tuesday 27 December – Sunday 1 January
- On Sunday 1 January buses replace trains between Selby, Micklefield and York until 12:00
- On Tuesday 27 December and Sunday 1 January, train and bus services on the network will start later than usual.
Grand Central, TransPennine Express and CrossCountry are also affected by this work and other issues. Check before you travel