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Southern is advising passengers of delays and disruptions this morning for people travelling into London.

The signalling system at Tulse Hill has a fault, which means trains between East Croydon and London Bridge via Tulse HIll may be cancelled or delayed by up to 20 minutes.

Services that usually run via Tulse Hill will now run via Forest Hill, and this means that Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Norbury, Streatham Common and Streatham (Greater London) will not have a service to London Bridge.

Advice for passengers is to travel to East Croydon and change there.

Until the end of March, there will be weekend disruptions to Southern, Thameslink, and Gatwick Express train services on the Brighton Main Line.

Anyone using these services should plan ahead as a series of winter maintenance closures means changes to services and buses replacing trains over two weekends in February and the last weekend in March.

This weekend, Saturday, 15th and Sunday, 16th February, engineering work will take place between East Croydon and London Victoria with changes to train services and extended journey times.

Passengers are reminded that due to upgrade works, no trains will operate on certain sections of the Southern, Thameslink and London Overground networks from Saturday, 26 October to Friday, 1 November, coinciding with the half-term week.

The upgrades will occur between Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill, and Peckham Rye as part of Network Rail’s £400 million investment programme in track and signalling improvements across South London.

Train services will be suspended for one week at the end of October on parts of National Rail and London Overground lines in South London because of improvements being made to the signalling,

The disruption will be during the half-term week from Saturday, 26 October to Friday 1 November.

During the closure, passengers on Thameslink services between Herne Hill, Wimbledon and Sutton should use London Buses or alternative National Rail, London Trams, or London Underground routes.

National Rail service alterations

Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 October

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Network Rail has finished its work to make Streatham station more accessible by providing step-free access to all the station's platforms.

The £5m upgrade involved installing two lifts to connect the ticket hall with the platforms. Passengers with mobility impairments or travelling with luggage, children or bicycles will now be able to move around the station without using steps.

As part of the upgrade project, Network Rail also:

realigned the stairs on platform 2

renewed stairs and handrails on platform 1

Network Rail has finished its work to make Streatham station more accessible by providing step-free access to all the station's platforms.

The £5m upgrade involved installing two lifts to connect the ticket hall with the platforms. Passengers with mobility impairments or travelling with luggage, children or bicycles will now be able to move around the station without using steps.

As part of the upgrade project, Network Rail also:

realigned the stairs on platform 2

renewed stairs and handrails on platform 1