M2 Junction 4 eastbound slips close 8pm to 6am on 1 and 2 October. Jacobs Lane, Hoo stays shut to about 10 October; Cloisterham Road closes from 5 October.

Five towns, one river and a single A2 threading the lot together. When something is dug up in Medway, everybody feels it.

This is the Medway roadworks and travel picture as it stands today, and it covers two things. First, what is actually being worked on now, checked against the council’s, National Highways’ and Southeastern’s own pages on 30 September 2026. Second, the standing facts that stay useful all year: the live map, the tunnel closure pattern and the key routes. Every date here comes from an official page, linked so you can check it before you set off.

The next two weeks at a glance (30 September to 14 October 2026)

Where What When Source
Jacobs Lane, Hoo St Werburgh Closed to vehicles and pedestrians for 750 metres from the Stoke Road junction, running south-east. Diversion via Stoke Road and Eschol Road Shut since Saturday 19 September, up to 21 days, so to about Saturday 10 October Medway Council order
Kingswood Road, Gillingham Closed at the frontage of No. 2a for new gas mains and services. An order the council intends to make, so treat the date as a plan From Monday 28 September, up to 8 days, so to about Monday 5 October Medway Council order
Grange Way, Rochester Closed at the frontage of No. 2 for a stop tap replacement. Diversion via Kings Avenue and Maidstone Road From Monday 28 September, up to 5 days, so to about Friday 2 October Medway Council order
Reed Street, Cliffe Closed for 235 metres east of Church Street while engineers reach an underground structure Wednesday 30 September, one day Medway Council order
M2 westbound at Junctions 2 and 1 Junction 2 exit and entry slips and the Junction 1 exit slip closed overnight, for maintenance between Junctions 2 and 1. The A2 westbound Cobham exit slip is shut the same night 8pm Wednesday 30 September to 6am Thursday National Highways 7-day closure report
M2 eastbound at Junction 4, Gillingham Exit and entry slip roads closed overnight on two nights, the junction for Gillingham, Hempstead and Rainham 8pm to 6am on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October National Highways 7-day closure report
Late trains, Wednesday and Thursday nights From 00:25 buses replace trains between Meopham and Gillingham; the 23:50 St Pancras to Faversham is a bus from Ebbsfleet; the 22:37 Tonbridge to Gillingham stops at Strood Nights of Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October Southeastern
The 00:40 Victoria to Gillingham Terminates at Meopham, with a bus on to Gillingham Night of Saturday 3 October Southeastern
Cloisterham Road, Rochester Closed outside No. 44 for a new three-phase cable. No alternative route. An order the council intends to make From Monday 5 October, up to 10 days Medway Council order
Late trains, Monday to Thursday The 23:20 and 23:50 St Pancras to Faversham do not run, with buses from Ebbsfleet to Gillingham. The 23:40 Victoria to Ramsgate terminates at Gillingham on the Monday, Wednesday and Thursday Nights of Monday 5 to Thursday 8 October Southeastern
Gas House Road, Rochester Closed 20 metres each side of railway bridge VIR/149 for an examination. No diversion. An order the council intends to make 10pm Thursday 8 October to 5am Friday 9 October Medway Council order
Church Street, Cliffe Telephone pole maintenance, about 40 metres either side of Nos 128 and 128A. An order the council intends to make Saturday 10 October, one day Medway Council order
Rochester to Rainham by rail No trains all day. Buses call at all stations; Chatham and Gillingham are served only by bus Sunday 11 October Southeastern

The one to plan around is Junction 4. It is where the A278 from Gillingham and Hempstead joins the M2, so it is the motorway access for Gillingham, Hempstead Valley and Rainham. Both eastbound slips shut on the Thursday and Friday nights, 8pm to 6am. National Highways files it under the same scheme as last week’s Junction 3 nights, “M2 both directions Jct 2 to Jct 5, slip road and lane closure for maintenance works”, and names no diversion. With the eastbound slips shut, the nearest alternatives for Gillingham traffic heading towards Sittingbourne and the coast are Junction 3 at Blue Bell Hill or the A2 through Rainham, and eastbound traffic coming home to Gillingham can leave at Junction 3 instead.

Two limits on the list. National Highways’ seven-day report was last updated at 15:31 on 29 September and runs only to the night of Monday 5 October, so nothing on the M2 after that has been published yet. And Medway Council has published no new batch of road closure orders since 17 September: we checked all 706 traffic notices created nationally on the Public Notice Portal between 24 and 29 September, and none was Medway’s. The council’s orders had arrived every Thursday for a month before that, so a new batch could land on Thursday 1 October.

Rainham: the four A2 nights are done, and nothing has replaced them

The A2 High Street and Mierscourt Road junction improvement booked four overnight closures at 8pm to 5.30am, and all four have now been worked: resurfacing on Wednesday 9 September, slot cutting for the traffic signal detector loops on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 September, and high friction surfacing on the westbound approach to the crossing on Monday 14 September (Medway Council news, 19 August 2026; scheme update notice).

We re-read the council’s update notice again on 30 September. It is still the August 2026 version and it carries no new dates, and the roadwork schemes page lists the same seven schemes it did a fortnight ago. So there is nothing further booked on the A2 at Rainham.

One caution, in the council’s own words. The programme “could be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances”, and the contractor “may need to return to site at a later date should there be adverse weather”. The council has not confirmed that all four nights went ahead, and it has not declared the scheme finished. If a night was lost, the closure comes back rather than disappearing.

The junction work itself started on 22 July 2026, under normal hours of Monday to Saturday, 7am to 7pm. The footways, crossing points, kerblines and drainage are done, and ducting is in for the new permanent traffic signals. Footway work continues around the night closures. The council’s number for queries is 01634 333333, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Twenty road closures now ordered across Medway, running to 30 November

Medway Council published a batch of ten temporary traffic regulation notices on 10 September 2026, all signed by Adam Bryan, the council’s Director of Place (Public Notice Portal). Neither batch has been reissued with new dates.

There is a second batch, and it is bigger. A further ten temporary traffic regulation notices were published on 17 September 2026 in the Medway Messenger, again signed by Adam Bryan (Public Notice Portal). They are set out in the next section. There is no third batch yet: nothing appeared on Thursday 24 September, and our sweep of the 706 traffic notices created nationally between 24 and 29 September found none for Medway.

Seven of the ten are now behind us. Bells Lane, Constitution Road, Stoke Road, Cooling Street, Castle Avenue, Hospital Lane and Portland Street have all run past the dates in their orders. The council does not publish a finish date, so each order’s length is a ceiling, not a promise. The three still running or still to come are Kingswood Road in Gillingham, Gas House Road in Rochester and Church Street in Cliffe. The tables below keep all ten for the record.

Seven of the ten are orders the council has made. The other three are orders it intends to make, which means the work is programmed but the order is not yet in force, so treat those three dates as intentions rather than decisions.

The first batch, published 10 September

Orders made:

Road Why Closed from Expected length Diversion
Castle Avenue, Rochester Water supply works at the frontage of No. 33 Monday 21 September 5 days Delce Road, Cossack Street and Longley Road
Hospital Lane, Rochester Water supply repairs at the junction with High Street Tuesday 22 September 4 days High Street, Gundulph Road and St Bartholomews Lane
Portland Street, Chatham Water supply repairs at the frontage of No. 3 Wednesday 23 September 7 days Magpie Hall Road, Listmas Road and Waghorn Street

Orders the council intends to make:

Road Why Closed from Expected length Diversion
Kingswood Road, Gillingham New gas mains and services at the frontage of No. 2a Monday 28 September 8 days Either Jeffery Street, Victoria Street and Railway Street, or Railway Street, King Street and Jeffery Street
Gas House Road, Rochester Examination of railway bridge VIR/149, 20 metres each side 10pm Thursday 8 October to 5am Friday 9 October Overnight None available. Emergency vehicle access maintained
Church Street, Cliffe Telephone pole maintenance, about 40 metres either side of Nos 128 and 128A Saturday 10 October 1 day Higham Road, West Street and Buttway Lane

Two things stand out in that list. Eight of the ten are utility jobs, not council road repairs: water, electricity, gas, overhead cable and telephone poles. That is the ordinary pattern, and it is why a road can be resurfaced one month and dug up the next.

And Gas House Road has no diversion at all. It is a short road off Corporation Street in Rochester with no alternative route, so a bridge examination there means the road is simply shut from 10pm until 5am. It is the same junction where the council has been laying ducts for a new crossing, covered further down this page.

The second batch, published 17 September

Ten more orders landed a week later, in the same form (Public Notice Portal). Jacobs Lane and Grange Way are in force, Reed Street is today, and Harold Road’s five-day window ran out on Tuesday 29 September.

Orders made:

Road Why Closed from Expected length Diversion
Jacobs Lane, Hoo St Werburgh Not stated in the notice Saturday 19 September 21 days Stoke Road and Eschol Road. Closed to pedestrians as well as vehicles
Harold Road, Cuxton Telecommunications works, 30 metres from the Reginald Avenue junction Friday 25 September 5 days None available. Emergency vehicle access maintained
Grange Way, Rochester Stop tap replacement at the frontage of No. 2 Monday 28 September 5 days Kings Avenue and Maidstone Road
Reed Street, Cliffe Engineers reaching an underground structure to connect a customer, 235 metres east of Church Street Wednesday 30 September 1 day Not stated

Orders the council intends to make:

Road Why Closed from Expected length Diversion
Cloisterham Road, Rochester A new three-phase service cable laid in a trench outside No. 44 Monday 5 October 10 days None available. Emergency vehicle access maintained
Yokosuka Way, Gillingham Carriageway retexturing for safety, southbound from Grange Road roundabout to the Featherby Road exit Thursday 15 October 1 night, 8pm to 6am Canterbury Street and Gillingham Road. Parking suspended along the closure
Stake Lane, Jade Hill and Essex Road, Halling Raised-table construction and junction improvement. The three roads close in turn, one at a time Friday 16 October To 30 November Kent Road and local roads. Essex Road’s one-way rule is suspended while it is shut
Sharnal Street, High Halstow A new water connection Monday 19 October 3 days None available. Emergency vehicle access maintained
Meresborough Lane, Gillingham Telephone pole maintenance, 60 metres either side of Bryony School Monday 26 October 2 days Meresborough Road, Moor Street (A2) and South Bush Lane

The longest of these by far is Halling, where Stake Lane, Jade Hill and Essex Road are booked from 16 October through to 30 November. Only one of the three is shut at any moment, but that is six weeks of moving closures in one small grid of streets.

Event closures already booked to the end of November

The same batch carries a community events order, in force from 20 September to 29 November (Public Notice Portal). It fixes these dates now:

  • Sunday 8 November, Remembrance Sunday: closures in Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham from 7am to 3pm, and in Rainham from 10am to 1pm
  • Saturday 28 November, Hempstead Christmas Lights: 5pm to 9.30pm

In Rochester the Remembrance schedule shuts Castle Hill from Esplanade to Epaul Lane, Epaul Lane itself, and Rochester High Street from the Corporation Street bus lane to Star Hill, with the one-way and no-entry rules suspended so residents and event vehicles can get through.

Each order is valid for a maximum of 18 months or until the work is finished, whichever comes first, and the restrictions apply only while the signs are displayed. Medway Council’s traffic management team takes queries on 01634 331165 or at traffic.management@medway.gov.uk.

Trains: late-night buses most of the next fortnight, then two hard Sundays in October

This week, to Friday 2 October: the last trains home change every night

Southeastern’s page for 30 September lists the changes still to run this week:

  • Early hours of Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October: from 00:25 until the end of service, accessible buses replace trains between Meopham and Gillingham and Faversham. The same closure began at 00:30 between Rochester and Gillingham in the early hours of Wednesday 30 September
  • Wednesday and Thursday nights: the 23:50 London St Pancras International to Faversham is replaced by accessible buses between Ebbsfleet International and Gillingham, calling at all stations except Higham, and between Gillingham and Faversham calling at Rainham and Sittingbourne
  • Wednesday and Thursday nights: the 22:37 Tonbridge to Gillingham runs only between Tonbridge and Strood. Change at Strood for Gillingham
  • Thursday and Friday mornings: a replacement bus leaves Gillingham at 03:55, calling at all stations to Strood, because the 04:17 Gillingham to Tonbridge starts from Strood at 04:30

Saturday 3 to Thursday 8 October

  • Night of Saturday 3 October: the 00:40 Victoria to Gillingham terminates at Meopham, with a rail replacement bus from Meopham to Gillingham (Southeastern, 4 October). The Sunday’s daytime closure is around Denmark Hill, so Victoria trains via Chatham run non-stop between Victoria and Bromley South.
  • Nights of Monday 5 to Thursday 8 October: the 23:20 and 23:50 St Pancras to Faversham trains do not run. Accessible buses run between Ebbsfleet International and Gillingham, calling at all stations except Higham, and between Gillingham and Faversham (Southeastern, 5 October).
  • Nights of Monday 5, Wednesday 7 and Thursday 8 October: the 23:40 Victoria to Ramsgate terminates at Gillingham, with an accessible bus on to Herne Bay on the Monday and to Faversham on the Wednesday and Thursday.
  • Same four nights: from 23:15 buses replace trains between Dartford and Gravesend, which catches late North Kent line trains from London Bridge towards Strood and Gillingham.

Sunday 11 October: no trains between Rochester and Rainham. Chatham and Gillingham stations are closed all day and served only by accessible buses calling at all stations between Rochester and Rainham. Victoria trains terminate at Rochester, and so do the high speed trains from St Pancras. Thameslink runs nothing between Gravesend and Rainham. Separately that weekend, Charing Cross and Waterloo East are closed, and on the Sunday the Victoria to Dartford via Bexleyheath trains are extended to Strood.

Sunday 18 October: no trains between Gillingham and Faversham. Victoria and St Pancras services terminate at Gillingham, with accessible buses on to Faversham calling at all stations except Teynham, and a minibus via Teynham. Rainham and Sittingbourne stations are closed all day, and so is the Sheerness branch.

Our Medway trains to London page has the normal times, fares and the high speed option.

The M2 and the motorway network: Junctions 2 and 1 tonight, Junction 4 on Thursday and Friday

National Highways’ 7-day closure report was refreshed at 15:31 on 29 September and covers the nights of Tuesday 29 September to Monday 5 October 2026. We read all seven of its daily sheets:

Night Closure Hours Scheme, in National Highways’ words
Wednesday 30 September M2 westbound Junction 2 exit and entry slips, and the Junction 1 exit slip 8pm to 6am M2 westbound Jct 2 to Jct 1, slip road and lane closure for maintenance works
Wednesday 30 September A2 westbound Cobham exit slip 8pm to 6am A2 both directions Wrotham to M2 Jct 2, slip road and lane closure for survey works
Thursday 1 October M2 eastbound Junction 4: exit and entry slips 8pm to 6am M2 both directions Jct 2 to Jct 5, slip road and lane closure for maintenance works
Friday 2 October M2 eastbound Junction 4: exit and entry slips, second night 8pm to 6am M2 both directions Jct 2 to Jct 5, maintenance works
Monday 5 October M2 westbound Junction 5 exit and entry slips, at Stockbury in Swale 8pm to 5am M2 westbound Jct 5, slip and lane closure for maintenance works

Last week’s two nights at Junction 3, Blue Bell Hill, finished at 6am on Wednesday 30 September.

Wednesday’s Junction 2 and Junction 1 closures are westbound, so they hit traffic leaving Medway for London late in the evening rather than traffic coming home. Junction 2 is the Cuxton junction for the A228, and Junction 1 is the Strood exit for the A289.

Junction 4 on Thursday and Friday is the reverse: it is the eastbound side, so it catches Gillingham, Hempstead and Rainham traffic heading for Sittingbourne, Canterbury and the coast, and anyone coming home to Gillingham from the London direction. Both slips are shut, so the nearest eastbound junction to use instead is Junction 3.

Junction 5 on Monday 5 October is outside Medway, about eight miles east of Gillingham at Stockbury, where the M2 meets the A249 for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. It is westbound, so it matters mainly for traffic coming from Sittingbourne onto the M2 towards Medway.

Otherwise the week is clear close to home. Nothing on the A229 over Blue Bell Hill, the A278 or the A289, the links to Maidstone, Gillingham and the Medway Tunnel. The A249 has overnight drainage closures further north in Swale, between Queenborough and the Whiteways roundabout on Wednesday 30 September and around the Sheerness port approach on Thursday 1 October, and the Sheppey Crossing itself shuts overnight on Monday 5 October.

The report looks only seven days ahead, so nothing after the night of Monday 5 October is published yet.

Where to check live roadworks

Medway Council publishes its live works through one.network, the national roadworks map. The quickest route in is the council’s own roadworks in Medway page, which embeds the map. Registering free on one.network shows the full description of each job. Day-to-day incidents and emergency closures are posted by the council’s highways team on X at @MedwayHighways.

Worth knowing: most holes in Medway’s roads are not the council’s. Utility companies dig under permits issued through the New Roads and Street Works Act, which is why a road can be resurfaced one month and opened up again the next, and why eight of the ten closures ordered on 10 September are water, gas, electricity or cable jobs.

Resurfacing: still nothing new since August

The council’s resurfacing page was checked again on 30 September and has not changed since our last read. The completed table for 2026 to 2027 still ends in August:

Road Ward Section Completed Length
Ratcliffe Highway All Saints Between The Fenn Bell Project and St Marys Cottages 12 August 2026 680m
Maidstone Road Fort Pitt and Fort Horsted Between The Ridgeway and Horsted Gyratory 13 August 2026 327m
City Way Rochester East and Warren Wood, Fort Pitt From the junction with The Fort to St John Fisher Catholic primary school 13 August 2026 164m
Station Road Strood Rural Whole road 14 August 2026 450m

That is 1,621 metres of carriageway across the four, on top of the six schemes finished in May and June. Ratcliffe Highway, at 680 metres, is the longest single stretch the council has recorded as resurfaced this financial year. A separate table of smaller schemes run by the council’s highways inspectorate still records York Avenue in Gillingham South, the whole road, 390 metres, completed on 15 August 2026 as the most recent entry anywhere on the page.

Two things the page still does not tell you:

  • Richmond Road, Gillingham has come off the current list without appearing in the completed one. It was closed for patching on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August, working 7am to 7pm (resident letter, diversion plan). The scheme notice has been taken down, which usually means it is done, but the council has not recorded it as complete and we cannot confirm it.
  • James Street, Gillingham is still the only carriageway scheme on the upcoming list. Its 30 May 2026 date was lost to emergency utility works, the page has said “a new date will be provided shortly” ever since, and three and a half months later there is still no date.

A separate group of smaller schemes stays listed on the roadwork schemes page long after their programmed windows: the High Halstow bus stop improvements on The Street (started 23 June for five to six weeks), Elm Avenue and Broadwood Road in Hoo (25 May, two weeks), Weeds Wood in Walderslade (22 April, four weeks), and Blue Boar Lane in Rochester, where phase one ran from 16 March and the remaining work is still to be programmed with Network Rail. Treat those notices as background, not as live closures.

Rochester: Corporation Street at Gas House Road

At the A2 Corporation Street junction with Gas House Road, the council’s term contractor Volker Highways has been laying ducts and signal pole sockets for a new pedestrian crossing phase. The notice says the work started on 3 August 2026 for about two weeks, Monday to Friday, 8am to 11pm, under temporary lights and a lane closure on Corporation Street (scheme notice). That programmed window has long passed and the notice has not been updated. The new signal poles go in separately later, so expect a second short visit to the same junction. Gas House Road itself is then due to shut overnight on 8 October for the railway bridge examination above.

The Medway Tunnel: how the closures work

The Medway Tunnel carries the A289 under the river between Strood and Chatham, and it is the council’s to run. It opened in 1996, the first immersed-tube road tunnel built in England.

The maintenance pattern is regular enough to plan around. The tunnel closes for three nights roughly every three months, usually early in March, June, September and December, with restrictions from 8pm to 6am. Dates can shift. They are signed in advance on the approach roads and on motorway variable message signs.

September went by with no closure dates published. The council’s “view upcoming closures” button points at the live roadworks map rather than a dated list, and the tunnel page still carried no dates when we checked it on 30 September. Whether the September nights ran unannounced or were moved, the council has not said. On the usual pattern the next set falls in early December. If you cross the tunnel late at night, watch the signs on the A289 approach. When it is shut overnight, cross-river traffic falls back on Rochester Bridge or the M2.

The council put a figure on its funding application on 25 August 2026: it is asking the Department for Transport’s Structures Fund for £9.25 million, and adding £1 million of its own, to renew the tunnel’s 1996 electrical, ventilation, pumping and life-safety systems (Medway Council). The council’s own tunnel page confirms the application “is currently under consideration, and a funding decision has not been made”. We covered the bid, and what happens if it fails, in Medway Tunnel: £10.5m bid to replace its 1996 systems.

The key routes, and what feeds what

Schematic diagram of Medway's key roads: the A2 running through Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham, the M2 to the south, the A228 to Hoo and the Isle of Grain, the A289 through the Medway Tunnel, the A229 to Maidstone and the A278 link to the M2
How Medway's main roads fit together. Diagram by Medway Live; schematic, not to scale.
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  • The A2 is the spine, the old London Road running through Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham. When it clogs, the towns clog.
  • The M2 runs south of the towns and takes the through traffic. Its Junction 5 upgrade at Stockbury, including the flyover carrying the A249 over the roundabout, was completed in February 2025.
  • The A228 is the Hoo Peninsula’s one real road, from Strood out through Chattenden and Hoo St Werburgh to the Isle of Grain, and south to Cuxton for the M20.
  • The A229 climbs Blue Bell Hill from Star Hill in Rochester to Maidstone and the M20, the main link south.
  • The A278 is the three-mile dual carriageway tying Gillingham and Hempstead Valley to the M2 at Junction 4.
  • The A289 links Strood to Gillingham through the Medway Tunnel, the northern bypass of the whole conurbation.

Further ahead, the Lower Thames Crossing, the new tunnel under the Thames connecting Kent and Essex, will join the A2 and M2 corridor west of Medway. It is the biggest change coming to the area’s road network.

No park and ride, so here is the honest alternative

Medway has no park and ride. The council’s travel pages list none, and the former Rochester park and ride site was disposed of years ago. If you are heading into a town centre, the realistic options are the council’s car parks, covered street by street in our parking in Medway guide, or the bus.

Buses are run by several operators, with Arriva’s Kent and Medway network the biggest, alongside Chalkwell, Nu-Venture, ASD and others. Routes and live departure information are linked from the council’s bus services page, and most town routes pass through Chatham Waterfront bus station. The national £3 single fare cap applies on most services.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I see current roadworks in Medway? On the council’s roadworks in Medway page, which embeds the live one.network map, or at one.network directly. Emergency closures are posted on X by @MedwayHighways.

Is the A2 still closed at Rainham? No. The four night closures for the Mierscourt Road junction scheme were booked for 9, 10, 11 and 14 September and all four dates have passed, with no further nights published (Medway Council update notice). The council has not declared the scheme complete, and its notice reserves the right to come back if weather stopped a night.

Which Medway roads are closed right now, or closing next? Jacobs Lane in Hoo has been shut to vehicles and pedestrians since 19 September for up to 21 days, so to about 10 October. Grange Way in Rochester is shut for a stop tap replacement to about 2 October, and Kingswood Road in Gillingham for gas works to about 5 October. Reed Street in Cliffe is shut for one day on 30 September. Then come Cloisterham Road in Rochester (5 October), Gas House Road in Rochester (night of 8 October), Church Street in Cliffe (10 October), Yokosuka Way in Gillingham (night of 15 October) and the Halling trio of Stake Lane, Jade Hill and Essex Road (16 October to 30 November). All are in the two council orders linked above.

Is the M2 closed in Medway this week? Only overnight, and only the slip roads. The westbound Junction 2 slips and Junction 1 exit slip close 8pm on Wednesday 30 September to 6am Thursday. The eastbound Junction 4 slips at Gillingham close 8pm to 6am on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October. The westbound Junction 5 slips at Stockbury, outside Medway, close on the night of Monday 5 October. Nothing on the A229, the A278 or the A289 in the report published to 5 October (National Highways).

When does the Medway Tunnel close? For planned maintenance, usually three nights every three months, early in March, June, September and December, 8pm to 6am. Dates are signed in advance on the approach roads and on motorway variable message signs. The council does not publish a dated list online, and no September nights were ever posted on its tunnel page. The next set is due, on the usual pattern, in early December.

Are the trains to London affected this month? Mostly late at night. In the early hours of Thursday 1 and Friday 2 October buses replace trains between Meopham and Gillingham from 00:25 (Southeastern). From Monday 5 to Thursday 8 October the 23:20 and 23:50 St Pancras to Faversham trains are buses from Ebbsfleet (Southeastern). The two full closures are Sunday 11 October (no trains Rochester to Rainham) and Sunday 18 October (no trains Gillingham to Faversham).

Is there a park and ride in Medway? No. The council’s travel pages list no park and ride service. Use the town car parks (see parking in Medway) or the bus network.

Sources

Planning a trip into the towns? Start with where to park, and if you are leaving the car at home, the trains to London. More Medway information is on the Medway Live home page.

Works dates are the published schedules as of 30 September 2026 and can move; check the live map before you travel. Last updated 30 September 2026.