Passengers warned as Stansted Airport trains face disruption soon

Engineering works mean that buses will replace trains on some routes

Rail passengers travelling to Stansted Airport this weekend may have to take an alternative route as major engineering works are taking place. Services running to and from London Stansted will be impacted on May 9 and May 10.

During this time, there will be no direct services to or from London Liverpool Street, with passengers instead encouraged to travel to London via Cambridge and London King’s Cross. Buses have been scheduled to replace trains between Bishops Stortford and Waltham Cross, as well as between Hertford East and Waltham Cross.

Trains will still be operating between Cambridge/Stansted Airport and Bishops Stortford, as well as Waltham Cross and London. The service will only run half-hourly.

Passengers for the Stansted Express are being asked to travel via Cambridge and King’s Cross instead because of limited rail replacement. Tickets for the Stansted Express will be accepted on alternative routes.

Elsewhere on the network, buses will also be replacing trains between Thetford and Cambridge North as well as Bury St Edmunds and Peterborough. Trains will still be operating between Norwich and Thetford, Cambridge North and Stansted Airport, and Ipswich and Cambridge.