Kingston breakfast briefing: No trains from Kingston to London this Sunday

By Ellie Brown - Local Democracy Reporter 5th Nov 2021

Fife Road, Kingston (Image: Ellie Brown)
Fife Road, Kingston (Image: Ellie Brown)

Morning Kingston and welcome to our breakfast briefing for Friday 5 November.

Read on for the weather this weekend, traffic news plus our unmissable weekend events.

Sunrise and weather

Today's weather: Sunny changing to cloudy in the afternoon. Chilly, with highs of 10° around 3pm.

Outlook for the weekend: Saturday starts cloudy with patchy drizzle. Brighter weather will develop during the morning and early afternoon. However, thickening cloud will bring patchy rain into the evening. Milder, but rather windy. Maximum temperature 13 °C.

Sunday will be mostly dry and bright, but still rather windy. Highs of 12° around 12pm.

Today's sunrise: 07:01

Today's sunset: 16:28

Travel update

Traffic news

New Malden: Queueing traffic for two miles on A2043 Malden Road Northbound from Colborne Way to A3 (Shannon Corner).

Worcester Park: Severe delays of ten minutes and delays easing on A2043 Malden Road Northbound between Farm Way and South Lane. Average speed five mph.

Esher: Queueing traffic for two miles on A244 Copsem Lane Northbound between Oaklawn Road and A3 (Esher Common). Travel time is 25 minutes.

Leatherhead: Entry ramp closed, two lanes closed and queueing traffic for eight miles due to spillage of hydraulic fluid on M25 clockwise at J9 A243 (Leatherhead). Congestion to J8 A217 (Reigate).

Rail news: planned engineering works on Sunday - no trains from Kingston to London will be running

Trains from London Waterloo to Kingston via Wimbledon are cancelled on Sunday 7 November as engineering work takes place.

Across the borough, services from London Waterloo to Hampton Court and Chessington will not be running and Berrylands station will be closed.

Over the river, trains from London Waterloo to Shepperton will be diverted to Richmond.

Bus replacement services are planned and the quickest way to get to the capital will be to get a train from Richmond station instead.

Find out more on the SWR website.

Events this weekend

Fireworks, an ABBA tribute night and Tolworth's community market.

Check our our pick of the weekend's events here.

Supermarket opening times

Waitrose & Partners: 8.30am–8pm

Tesco Express: 6am-11pm

Aldi: 8am–10pm

Sainsbury's: 7am–9pm

Asda: 8-9pm

Kingston Food Centre: 6:30am–11pm

Longdan Express: 10am–8pm

Sainsbury's Sury Basin: 7am–10pm

Useful links

- Looking for a home in Kingston? Visit our Property section for the best & most unusual houses and flats in our town.

- For local vacancies check out our Kingston area jobs page

- Car-lovers don't miss Ginny Buckley's column which has the latest motoring news

     

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