Liverpool Street station to shut over Christmas

Travellers are warned to check with their rail provider before setting off on their journeys over the Christmas period

Liverpool Street Station will be closed for eight days between Christmas Day and New Year's Day for works to be carried out on its roof, Network Rail said.

It has urged people travelling over the Christmas period to check journey plans if travelling via the UK's busiest station.

Strengthening work will also be carried out inside the Bishopsgate Tunnel approach to London Liverpool Street, alongside signalling renewal work across Cambridgeshire.

Full services will resume from and to the station on 2 January, it added.

Greater Anglia passengers will be affected by the closure of Liverpool Street station

The engineering work taking place in Cambridgeshire will start on Christmas Day and last up to 11 days, Network Rail said, to deliver the second stage of the Cambridge re-signalling project and modernise the system.

Signalling engineers will introduce a new control system to operate the signals for the section of railway between Cambridge North and Audley End.

"A new digital workstation at the Cambridge signalling centre will replace the 40-year-old signalling panel allowing signallers to oversee the operation of the network more efficiently," Network Rail said.

"This work is also vital to allow the new station at Cambridge South to open early in the New Year."

An upgrade to the Meldreth Road level crossing in Cambridgeshire will see a full barrier CCTV system introduced too.

From 27 December to 4 January 2026, there will be no rail services between Royston and Stansted Mountfitchet and Cambridge and Cambridge North.

Rail services between Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds will also be affected during these dates, with rail replacement bus services in place between affected stations from Friday 27 December.

New ticket barriers on platforms at London Liverpool Street will be introduced

Network Rail, which is responsible for railway infrastructure, said all of its train services will not run on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and will finish early on Christmas Eve on some routes.

From 27 December, Greater Anglia services on the Great Eastern and West Anglia mainlines will run to and from Stratford, including Stansted Express services.

The Stansted Express would operate a revised service to and from Tottenham Hale on Boxing Day.

Services to Norwich, Ipswich, Clacton-on-Sea and Braintree will run to and from Witham due to engineering work.

Buses will run between Witham and Billericay to provide a connection with train services between Billericay and Stratford.

London's busiest rail station will shut for eight days over Christmas

London Liverpool Street works include the strengthening of Bishopsgate tunnel, which will see the installation of steel support girders inside the tunnel and work to repair existing steelwork to prevent corrosion.

On the station concourse, roof panels will be renewed to allow more light into the station, improve the drainage system and renew seals "to make the roof resilient to more frequent and intense storms", said Network Rail.

New ticket gates for platforms one to 10 will also be added.