{"id":1039,"date":"2015-12-09T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2015-12-18T11:02:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:02:29","slug":"michael-warns-on-christmas-station-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Warning About Christmas Station Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-878\" style=\"width: 2592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-878 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Inspecting the work in progress at London Bridge Station\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge.jpg 2592w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/london-bridge-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael inspecting the work at London Bridge Station earlier this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael has warned commuters in the\u00a0Sevenoaks constituency to be prepared for significant rail disruption over the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the regular reduced service level between Christmas and New Year, no trains will be stopping at Charing Cross, Waterloo\u00a0East, Cannon Street or London Bridge from 8pm on Christmas Eve until 4am on Monday 4<sup>th<\/sup> January.\u00a0 Service frequency will begin to reduce from the afternoon of 24<sup>th<\/sup> December.\u00a0 All trains will be redirected to Victoria,\u00a0Blackfriars or New Cross and tickets will be accepted on Transport for London services.<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s Members of Parliament met Southeastern\u2019s Managing Director, David Statham, and his team earlier this week to hear more about the plans, which are part of the Thameslink improvement programme at London Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u00a0said: &#8220;Whilst I understand this major disruption to services is necessary for the ongoing redevelopment of London Bridge station, I will be monitoring the work to ensure that the reopening of the stations is not delayed.\u00a0 Passengers must not experience any more disruption than is absolutely necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael has warned commuters in the\u00a0Sevenoaks constituency to be prepared for significant rail disruption over the Christmas period. In addition to the regular reduced service level between Christmas and New Year, no trains will be stopping at Charing Cross, Waterloo\u00a0East, Cannon Street or London Bridge from 8pm on Christmas Eve until 4am on Monday 4th &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1039\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warning About Christmas Station Closures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[95,91,90,11,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}