{"id":701137,"date":"2026-07-20T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701137\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:00:11","slug":"four-london-overground-bridges-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/701137\/","title":{"rendered":"Four London Overground bridges to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four bridges which carry London Overground trains in east London are due to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be some weekend closures as work is done on the 130-year-old bridges in Forest Gate on the Suffragette line between Leytonstone High Road and Woodgrange Park stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Talbot Road and Stracey Road works will begin on 1 September followed by Strode Road and Latimer Road on 28 September. The road and pavement below will be closed throughout the project, Network Rail says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Joe Kennedy, infrastructure director for Network Rail Anglia, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re really sorry for the disruption and we&#8217;ll work very closely with residents and businesses to keep the impact to a minimum while we get the job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Our project will deliver four brand-new bridges that will serve the surrounding community and rail passengers for several generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four bridges which carry London Overground trains in east London are due to be replaced. There will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-701137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}