Between July 19 and August 10, London Underground will be replacing 6km of track, points and track drainage.

During the week, there will be no Metropolitan line between Uxbridge and Ruislip and no Piccadilly line between Uxbridge and Rayners Lane.

On two weekends the closures will be extended on the Metropolitan line between Uxbridge and Wembley Park, and Northwood and Wembley Park. On the other two weekends there will be no service on the Metropolitan line between Uxbridge and Rayners Lane.

London Underground planned the work to be carried out during the school summer break and has said that carrying the work out in a block period of 23 days reduces the number of weekend closures that would have been needed - a total of 14 weekends.

Throughout the closure, ticket acceptance will be granted on buses and a rail replacement bus service will be in operation connecting with the Central line at West Ruislip.

The 48-hour tube strike in February saw commuters in Uxbridge finding different ways to travel to work

with roads across the borough feeling the strain of extra traffic.

Uxbridge station deserted and closed during the tube strike in February 2014

George McInulty, London Underground’s programme director of infrastructure, said: "The track replacement work on the Uxbridge branch is a crucial part of the Metropolitan line upgrade. In recent years our customers have seen the arrival of the new walk-through air-conditioned trains and in the future will benefit from more frequent and faster services when new signalling is installed. However for customers to fully benefit from all these improvements it is essential that we upgrade the track and infrastructure to support it.

"Carrying out a block closure of this section of the network will enable us to complete the work in just over three weeks as opposed to fourteen weekend closures.

"This approach means that there will be no time lost due to set-up and hand-back of works, which minimises working time and helps to significantly reduce the cost - saving around £3million of tax and fare payers’ money- and ultimately keeping disruption to customers to an absolute minimum."

Full timetable of closures while the work takes place:

Monday to Friday

Weekend

Metropolitan line

Piccadilly line

 

19th - 20th July 2014

Uxbridge to Wembley Park & Northwood

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

21st - 25th July 2014

 

Uxbridge to Ruislip

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

 

26th - 27th July 2014

Uxbridge to Wembley Park & Northwood

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

28th July - 1st August 2014

 

Uxbridge to Ruislip

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

 

2nd - 3rd August 2014

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

4th - 8th August 2014

 

Uxbridge to Ruislip

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

 

9 - 10 August 2014

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane

Uxbridge to Rayners Lane