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Planning on using Euston station over the Easter bank holiday weekend? Watch out for major disruption. The capital’s 10th-busiest train station will be subject to closures that will impact travellers on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
The WCML runs between London and Glasgow, serving destinations such as Milton Keynes, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. The line is one of the busiest mixed-use railways in all of Europe.
Euston will close from April 3 (Good Friday) through to Wednesday April 8. During this six-day period, all Avanti West Coast or London Northwestern Railway services south of Milton Keynes Central will be replaced by buses.
Customers are advised that all trips to the northwest from Euston will likely take longer and be busier, as well as involve either more changes and/or rail replacement buses. On April 4-5 there will also be no service between Preston and Lancaster.
And it isn’t just train services out of London that will be impacted. The Lioness Overground line will also be closed on Saturday April 4 and April 5 (Easter Sunday).
So, why exactly is Euston closing over the Easter bank holiday? Well, Network Rail has said that ‘a major programme of essential upgrades’ is scheduled for the West Coast Main Line between London and Milton Keynes.
In practice, £8.4m of essential track work is set to take place at Willesden and signalling upgrades worth over £7m are coming to (just south of) Leighton Buzzard. Overhead line equipment is being replaced in Wembley, bridge waterproofing is being undertaken at Ledburn and Harrow & Wealdstone station is getting canopy and platform upgrades.
The works are all part of a wider £400m project to increase the reliability of West Coast Main Line.
London Euston station closures in April 2026
Euston will be closed on the following dates:
- April 3 (Good Friday)
- Saturday April 4
- April 5 (Easter Sunday)
- Monday April 6
- Tuesday April 7
- Wednesday April 8
Will Euston’s London Underground station be shut?
Euston’s tube station is expected to continue operating as normal during the six days’ worth of closures. However, watch out for the following TfL service disruption:
- Lioness line – no service between Euston and Watford Junction on Saturday April 4 and Sunday April 5
- Bakerloo line – no trains between Queens Park and Watford Junction on Saturday April 4 and Sunday April 5
Did you see that Liverpool Street is also being impacted by train station closures?
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