Passengers are being advised to plan their journey to and from London Paddington as early as possible this Christmas ahead of Network Rail’s biggest ever Christmas upgrade.

The programme of upgrade work will cause disruption to services across Great Western main line and west London with up to 200 projects being delivered across the UK over this holiday period.

This essential programme of investment is part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

There will be disruption to services out of London Paddington from the early hours on Christmas Eve through to Tuesday 3 January which means that passengers travelling to and from London need to interchange at Ealing Broadway station up until Thursday 29 December.

There will be no Heathrow Express services from the station and Great Western Railway services will be terminating at Ealing Broadway from Christmas Eve until Thursday 29 December. There will be reduced train services from Friday 30 December to Tuesday 3 January

A breakdown of how journeys may be affected can be found by visiting nationalrail.co.uk/Christmasand following #ChristmasWorks on Twitter.