Travellers from East Surrey will face four years of “commuting hell” during work to rebuild London Bridge station, a rail users’ group has said.
The refurbishments mean that many trains will be diverted to Victoria for the duration of the works.
London Bridge station is being refurbished as part of the Thameslink upgrade next year.
Stephen Trigg, from Reigate, Redhill and District Railway Users’ Association, said East Surrey commuters would suffer unfairly because of the disruption.
He noted that the biggest change is that there are going to be only five trains in the morning peak to London Bridge instead of the usual nine and they are all going to be slower trains,
Southern said the refurbishment of London Bridge imposed constraints on service capacity but that the completion of the Thameslink programme will bring more capacity and more trains to stations in East Surrey