TRAIN lines affecting Dorset passengers will be closed in December due to maintenance work.

Altered train services and buses will replace trains in the Brockenhurst area on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December.

CrossCountry services will be affected by the closures all weekend and Great Western Railway services will be affected on Sunday.

On Saturday the following service changes will be made:

London Waterloo to Weymouth services will terminate at Brockenhurst. Some services will call additionally at Shawford, Eastleigh, Totton, Ashurst and Beaulieu Road.

Winchester to Poole stopping services will not run.

Fast buses will run between Southampton Airport Parkway, Bournemouth and Poole. Fast buses will also run between Southampton Central and Bournemouth.

Buses will run between Brockenhurst, Bournemouth and Poole.

A revised service will run between Bournemouth and Weymouth.

On Sunday the following services will be affected:

London Waterloo to Weymouth services will terminate at Southampton Central.

London Waterloo to Poole services will call additionally at Swaythling and St Denys and will terminate at Southampton Central.

Fast buses will run between Southampton Airport Parkway, Bournemouth and Poole.

Buses will run between Southampton Central, Brockenhurst, Bournemouth and Poole.

Brockenhurst to Lymington Pier services will not run.

Buses will run between Southampton Central and New Milton via Brockenhurst and Lymington.

Additional services will run between Poole and Weymouth.

Salisbury to Romsey via Southampton Central services will terminate at Romsey.

Buses will run between Romsey and Southampton Central via Redbridge. Chandler’s Ford will be served by diverted Great Western Railway services.