In message . com, David
of Broadway writes

No. Business travel increases to normal levels after the summer
lull. This week is probably the best option, after the holiday
peak and before the business traffic ramps up.

So wouldn't weekends several weeks from now be light?

Possibly, but how would that accommodate a 3-day closure before 17
September?

Fair enough, if the work can't be done in two. Maybe a weekend plus
the adjoining Friday or Monday?

Weekend closures are already booked up well into next year for normal
engineering works. Due to the T5 construction work, the site will have
only become ready in the last week or so (in fact, it may not even be
handed over until the day before we start reinstating signalling). LU
obviously want to restart services to T4 as soon as possible, with
September 2006 having already been given as the reopening date. That
would only give weekends of 2/3 September and 9/10 September to do this
work. As it needs 3 days that would encroach into the week at one end
or the other anyway. There is then the requirement for us to run some
trains round the loop in advance of the public reopening.

Also, many people travelling at weekend are less familiar with dealing
with alternative travel options, whereas those travelling in the week
tend to be more regular travellers.

All in all, I suspect this is already a very tight window and probably
the only opportunity to do it.

In any event, it's only the one station that's closed as there will be a
5 minute service into central London from Hatton Cross on all days.
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