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A commuter rail line will be closed for eight consecutive weekends due to late running work on a £130 million upgrade.

The Barking-to-Gospel Oak line on the London Overground will shut tomorrow as engineers begin a series of improvement works.

Works will begin at 1am on either Saturdays or Sundays and won’t finish until 4am on the following Mondays.

Thousands of residents living close to the line have been warned to expect sleepless nights due to noisy vehicles and construction workers.

In a letter to neighbours, Network Rail warned “disturbance is unavoidable, but we will make every effort to minimise every unnecessary noise.”

The 14-mile line, used by around 10,000 people a day, reopened in February after a nine-month upgrade but is being closed again to rectify problems.

These include overhead power cables not fitting in incorrectly designed masts, piledrivers breaking through sewers, and construction materials not being delivered on schedule.

The line will close on the Sundays of 4, 11, 18 and 25 June and 2 July. It will then close for the weekends of 8 and 9 July, 15 and 16 July and 22 and 23 July.

The project is designed to replace two-car diesel trains with four-car electric trains from January next year.