RAIL operator East Coast is advising passengers not to try to travel to London from Bradford today because of overrunning engineering works near Kings Cross.

Planned track improvements are taking longer than expected to finish and are causing significant disruptions to travel routes - trains are not running between Finsbury Park and London Kings Cross because of it.

However, passengers with a ticket for travel today can use their East Coast ticket tomorrow or Monday, December 29.

For passengers returning north today, East Coast is running a limited amended service to and from Finsbury Park with a half hourly service departing Finsbury Park at 30 minutes and on the hour to Leeds, a train shuttle service is also running between Peterborough and Leeds.