Evening all,
As part of the Southampton Freight Train Lengthening Scheme (FTLS) there are a few closures coming up for engineering works around Southampton Central. The focus of this work, among other things, is to allow commissioning of new signalling as part of the scheme.
Line closures and the dates thereof will be:
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15/02/2021-19/02/2021: Southampton Central-Romsey & Southampton Central - Brockenhurst
It appears that, as things stand, there are no replacement buses planned. However there are local bus services between Southampton and Eastleigh at a frequency of 2bph.
Thanks for that, Dave. It would appear that the
GWR▸ trains are diverted with extra calls at Chandlers Ford and Eastleigh replacing the call at Southampton Central.
Rail connections at Eastleigh into Waterloo to Poole and Weymouth trains for Southampton Central, where they terminate for the week. Unclear whether extra calls will be made at Eastleigh on those services from London that normally whistle straight through - I would hope so, bearing in mind that the Romsey Rocket which usually provides half this service is cut back to a Salisbury - Romsey shuttle.