London Overground from Highbury and Islington to Shadwell to close for nine days from Saturday

Closure: An Overground train pulls in to Highbury & Islington station
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Sebastian Mann11 February 2016

A key stretch of the London Overground running through east London is to be shut for nine days straight.

No trains will run between Highbury & Islington and Shadwell from Saturday until February 22.

The closure is to allow Crossrail construction works to take place, Transport for London said.

Services will not run between Surrey Quays and New Cross for the same period.

TfL said replacement buses would run instead and warned passengers on the popular route, also known as the East London Line, that Highbury & Islington and Shadwell stations would be far busier because of the works.

The £14.8 billion pound Crossrail project will see a 70-mile railway line cut across central London from east to west, connecting Shenfield in Essex with Reading in Berkshire.

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