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Thise travelling in Boxing Day could also be affected by cancellation and disruption.

Train stations and airports stay busy with giant footfalls displaying no indicators of slowing with the ultimate days of 2024, from 26 to 31 December, seeing tens of millions on the transfer round Britain.

For these trying to board trains for his or her journey could possibly be in for a disappointment as quite a lot of companies have been cancelled this Boxing Day.

These cancellations have affected quite a lot of trains throughout the UK and in London too.

Some trains are nonetheless working on a festive timetable which implies there aren’t any companies on December 26 and quite a lot of different companies being cancelled.

The LNER service, which operates trains from London as much as the east of England and into Scotland, is shut and won’t reopen till Friday.

Avanti West Coast, which runs trains from London to Glasgow, are nonetheless working on its festive timetable for 2024 which implies there no companies on December 26.

This festive timetable may also imply quite a lot of different regional practice companies will stay closed together with Great Northern, Thameslink and East Midlands Railway.

For southern elements of the UK, there will probably be a restricted Southern service for some routes between Brighton and London Victoria.

In London, Kings Cross St. Pancras is simply working companies to Continental Europe.

This means there aren’t any trains working from St. Pancras to Kent on Southeastern, the south coast or Bedford on the Thameslink and no service to Leicester and Sheffield on the East Midlands Railway.

The London Underground is operating a traditional service on Boxing Day with all stations open aside from the Elizabeth Line.

There is a restricted service on the London Victoria-Gatwick Airport-Brighton with hourly companies from 8.30am to eight.30pm.

The Tottenham Hale-Stansted Airport is working however on a half-hourly service from 6.45am to 11.15pm.

Most rail routes will reopen on Friday 27 December with companies prone to change once more over New Year.

In Liverpool, Merseyrail is not going to be serving all stations with the operator explaining: “Additional services will be available between Liverpool and Aintree to support those attending the Boxing Day races”.

There aren’t any trains operating in Wales or Northern Ireland.