Paddington station will be closed for four days from Christmas Day through to Monday 28 December. This followed by a further six days of reduced access.

Train services will also finish earlier than normal on Thursday 24 December.  

As usual no trains will run on Christmas Day or Boxing Day, on Sunday 27 and Monday 28 December no services will travel to Paddington. Trains will operate to Waterloo and to Marylebone, and a range of bus services will be offered in the Thames Valley.

Services will also be altered from Tuesday 29 December until Sunday 3 January.

This will allow Network Rail to

·        complete major station improvements at London Paddington, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Southall, Hayes & Harlington and West Drayton stations for Crossrail

·        upgrade existing overhead line equipment as part of the Great Western mainline electrification programme

·        reconfigure the railway junction into Old Oak Common depot

Tickets for these revised timetables are now on sale. More information can be found here and an extensive programme of customer information is planned both in the lead up to Christmas and throughout the works.