{"id":31414,"date":"2024-04-27T02:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=31414"},"modified":"2024-04-27T02:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:38:34","slug":"network-rail-encourages-passengers-to-check-before-travelling-as-track-renewal-takes-place-at-slough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=31414","title":{"rendered":"Network Rail encourages passengers to check before travelling as track renewal takes place at Slough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkrail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Network Rail<\/a> is set to carry out essential track renewal work around Slough station for the next three weekends. <\/p>\n<p>It has advised passengers that there will be an amended timetable in place between 27 \u2013 28 April and 11 \u2013 12 May. Over the early May bank holiday weekend (4 \u2013 5 May), there will be a small reduction in the number of services running, with journeys taking longer to complete.<\/p>\n<p>As well as removing and replacing the old rails, the teams on site will install new ballast, with over 4,000 tonnes expected to be laid and packed. Almost 800 metres of rail will be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Parker, Network Rail\u2019s Project Manager, said: \u201cI\u2019d like to thank passengers for their patience while we carry out this essential track renewal through Slough station over the next three weekends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the majority of services will still run, there will be an amended timetable in place with trains leaving some stations at different times to usual, so please do check before travelling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new track will mean that passengers can continue to experience a safe and reliable railway into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find more details of the amended timetable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwr.com\/travel-information\/travel-updates\/planned-engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Rail is set to carry out essential track renewal work around Slough station for the next three weekends. It has advised passengers that there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[7,11],"class_list":["post-31414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}