Bromley commuters are among millions of passengers facing travel chaos over the festive season and beyond.

London Bridge station faces a part-closure disrupting a number of services, with some lasting until 2018.

While the National Rail and Tube station will remain open, London Overground, Southern, Thameslink and Southeastern passengers will face upheaval.

For commuters across South London who regularly use the Southeastern service to Charing Cross, trains will not call at London Bridge from January 12 next year, not resuming until more than a year later in August 2016.

The misery continues, however, as Southeastern services to and from Canon Street will not call at London Bridge from August 2016 until January 2018.

Rail authorities estimate around 12 million people could be affected by plans for the 178-year-old station, London’s oldest surviving ‘rail terminus’.

The planned engineering works, part of a Thameslink works programme, will see £6.5 billion going towards opening two new platforms.

The money will also be spent of modernising track and signalling equipment, and will see a new concourse bigger than the pitch at Wembley.

Thameslink programme director Simon Blanchflower said: "In the long run our work here will improve the journeys of millions of passengers across the south, but we understand that until we've finished some people may have to change their journey to or from London.”

  • From December 20 until January 4 next year, no Southern or Thameslink services will call at London Bridge. Both routes will be on diversion and call at alternative London platforms.
  • Southern will begin operating to and from London Bridge from January 5 next year, with a new timetable in place.
  • From January 5 next year Thameslink will run a limited service until January 2018 to and from London Bridge.
  • No Southeastern trains to Charing Cross that usually call at London Bridge will stop there in the morning rush hour between Monday December 22 and Wednesday December 24. This will be in effect from 7.54am-9:01am, but services will call at the station at all other times during this period.
  • Also between Monday December 22 and Wednesday December 24, London Overground services will not operate to and from New Cross, with a replacement bus service instead.
  • Southeastern services from January 2015 from New Cross, St Johns, Deptford, Greenwich, Maze Hill and Westcombe Park stations will no longer operate to and from London Charing Cross or Waterloo East. They will instead operate to and from London Cannon Street.

Commuters are advised that other London stations may be busier as a result, and are advised to check closures before they travel.

For more information visit www.tfl.gov.uk

How will you be affected? Leave your comments below