Cray Avenue (A224) loses a southbound lane to 13 November, and buses replace Hayes trains until 09:15 on 8 November. No Charing Cross trains 14 to 15 November.

Bromley roadworks come from three different road authorities at once: Transport for London on the red routes, the council on everything else, and the utility companies digging under both. Add a rolling resurfacing programme and the railway, and the picture gets hard to follow. This page keeps it straight. It covers what is genuinely disrupting journeys now, what is coming in the next fortnight, and the live maps that always have the current answer. It also carries the evergreen facts: who runs which road, and where to park at the stations.

Updated 4 November: TfL added tree pruning on the A21 Kentish Way, to 14:00 on Friday 6 November.

Updated 3 November: TfL’s road and bus disruption lists, Southeastern’s notices for 3 to 19 November, National Highways’ closure report dated 2 November and the council’s resurfacing programme were all re-read this morning. The A21 Masons Hill, Station Road in Orpington and Kent Gate Way have dropped off TfL’s list, and so have all of the borough’s bus diversions. All times are UK time.

Cray Avenue (A224) in St Mary Cray is the longest Bromley job on TfL’s list. One southbound lane is closed at Cray Valley Road until 18:00 on Friday 13 November. There are also lane restrictions on the A21 Kentish Way at Stockwell Close until 14:00 on Friday 6 November. On the railway, buses replace Hayes line trains between Lewisham and Hayes until about 09:15 on Sunday 8 November, and late trains to Hayes stop at Bromley South from Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November. Then on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November no Southeastern trains run to or from Charing Cross, Waterloo East or Cannon Street, and on the Sunday buses replace trains from Lewisham to Orpington via Chislehurst.

What is on the roads right now (checked 4 November 2026)

TfL’s live records on the evening of Wednesday 4 November carry two jobs in the borough.

  • A21 Kentish Way at Stockwell Close (BR1, BR2). Lane restrictions in both directions until 14:00 on Friday 6 November for tree pruning by TfL (record TIMS-236438). TfL said traffic was flowing well when it last updated the record on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Cray Avenue (A224) at Cray Valley Road, St Mary Cray (BR5). One southbound lane closed until 18:00 on Friday 13 November for UK Power Networks, in place since 30 September (record TIMS-235686). TfL says delays are possible.

Gone from the list since our last check on 30 October:

  • A21 Masons Hill at Homesdale Road (BR2). The temporary lights after the burst water main (record TIMS-237056) were listed to 23:00 on Monday 2 November, and the record is no longer on TfL’s list. The background is in our story on the closure.
  • Station Road (A232) at Tubbenden Lane, Orpington, water works listed to 30 October (TIMS-236594).
  • Kent Gate Way (A2022) on the Croydon boundary, listed to 04:00 on 2 November (TIMS-236199).

Source: TfL’s live road disruption data, which sits behind the TfL traffic status page, read on the morning of 3 November 2026.

Buses: no Bromley diversions listed

TfL’s bus disruption list carried 18 notices London-wide on the morning of 3 November, and none of them is in the borough. The Masons Hill diversions of the 61, 208, 261, 320, 336 and 358, the reduced 320 service to Biggin Hill, the B14 and R4 diversions in St Mary Cray and the 356 diversion in Penge, all on the list on 30 October, have been withdrawn. The only notice naming a Bromley route is outside the borough: the 261 is diverted southbound on Baring Road, SE6, in Lewisham, for a burst water main.

Check the TfL bus status page before you rely on any stop.

Source: TfL bus disruption data, read on the morning of 3 November 2026.

Trains: 8 November, then 14 and 15 November

Late nights, week of 2 November: on the Tuesday, Thursday and Friday entries, the 00:10 and 00:40 Victoria to Gillingham trains leave at 00:12 and 00:42 and run non-stop to Rochester. For Bromley South, Southeastern says to use the 00:10 and 00:40 Victoria to Swanley trains instead. Southeastern files trains after midnight under the day they run on, so these are the early hours of Thursday 5 and Friday 6 November (Southeastern, 2 to 6 November).

Saturday 7 November is clear. Southeastern lists no planned work that day (7 November).

Sunday 8 November: Hayes line buses until about 09:15. Charing Cross to Hayes trains run only as far as Lewisham until then, and accessible buses run between Lewisham and Hayes, calling at all stations. The 08:21 Charing Cross to Hayes leaves at 08:56 and runs non-stop from London Bridge to Hayes, and the 09:11 Hayes to Charing Cross starts from New Beckenham. The first normal trains are the 08:51 Charing Cross to Hayes, which leaves at 08:59, and the 09:41 Hayes to Charing Cross (Southeastern, 8 November).

Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, late evenings on the Hayes line:

  • the 22:51 to 23:21 Charing Cross to Hayes trains run to Bromley South after New Beckenham
  • after 23:30 no trains run from London to the Hayes line, and the last one stops at Lewisham
  • from 23:05 accessible buses run between Bromley South and Hayes; the last one starts back from Lewisham at 00:31
  • trains from Hayes towards London are not affected

Source: Southeastern, 9 to 13 November.

Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November: no trains to or from Charing Cross, Waterloo East or Cannon Street. Southeastern says a limited service runs to London Bridge, with most trains sent to Victoria or Blackfriars instead. The Underground accepts tickets between those London termini at no extra cost. For the borough’s lines:

Line Saturday 14 November Sunday 15 November
Hayes line Runs to and from Blackfriars, every 30 minutes Runs to and from Victoria
Orpington via Grove Park and Chislehurst Sevenoaks trains run to Blackfriars; no Cannon Street trains, so stopping trains run every 30 minutes Buses replace trains between Lewisham and Orpington
Bromley North Different times from usual Not listed
Victoria to Orpington via Bromley South Different times from usual Extended to Sevenoaks
Maidstone East trains Run to Victoria, calling at Bromley South Not listed

On the Sunday, engineering work at Hither Green closes all lines. Grove Park, Elmstead Woods and Chislehurst stations are served only by replacement buses that day, as are Hither Green, Lee, Mottingham and New Eltham. Sources: Southeastern, 14 November and 15 November.

Monday 16 to Thursday 19 November: no late trains via Lewisham. After about 23:25 trains cannot stop at Lewisham. On the Monday and Tuesday, Hayes line trains finish early: the only train leaving London after 22:30 is the 23:21 Charing Cross to Hayes, and replacement buses run between London Bridge or Lewisham and Hayes on those two nights (Southeastern, 16 to 19 November).

Our trains guide has the standard timetable pattern.

Resurfacing: November jobs at Chelsfield and Cudham

The council’s 2026/27 programme gives a start month for each road, not a day. Re-read on 3 November, it lists two jobs for November 2026:

Road Extent Ward
Bucks Cross Road Complete length Chelsfield
Cudham Lane South Large patching at various locations Darwin

Nothing is listed for December. The page still shows the eleven roads set for October: Almond Way, Barnet Wood Road, Beechcroft Road, Church Hill, Court Street, Eliott Road, Forster Road, Old Priory Avenue, Spring Gardens, Westbury Road and West Common Road (Croydon Road to West Common Road). The council has not said which of those are finished, so check the signs on site. The two principal-road schemes come later: Anerley Hill and Anerley Road from March 2027 and Sevenoaks Way (A224) between Broomwood Road and Leesons Hill from November 2027 (planned carriageway and footway works). Resurfacing usually means short overnight or off-peak closures, and the exact dates go up on site signs and the live maps below.

Plaistow Lane: the council still has not said. It closed the road in mid-July after a void was found near the Plaistow Green roundabout, and said then that it hoped to reopen within days (Bromley Council, 13 July). That page was unchanged when we re-read it on 3 November. TfL’s live records show no closure and no bus diversion there, which points to the road being back in use, but the council has not confirmed it.

Driving out: Dartford, M25 junctions 3 and 4, and the A21 at Chipstead

National Highways’ seven-day closure report was last updated at 15:33 on Monday 2 November and runs to Sunday 8 November. For drivers from the borough:

  • The Dartford West Tunnel closes northbound overnight, 21:00 to 05:30, starting on each night from Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 November, with the A282 junction 1A northbound entry slip closed at the same times. On Saturday 7 November the tunnel closes from 22:00 to 06:00 on Sunday.
  • The Dartford East Tunnel closes northbound from 22:30 on Sunday 8 November to 05:30 on Monday 9 November, with no access over the crossing for vehicles over 4.8m.
  • The A21 northbound between Chipstead and M25 junction 5 closes from 22:00 to 05:30 on the nights starting Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 November.
  • M25 junction 4, south of Orpington: the clockwise entry slip closes from 23:00 on Friday 6 November to 06:00 on Saturday.
  • M25 junction 3 at Swanley: the clockwise link from junction 3 to the M20 eastbound closes from 23:00 on Friday 6 November to 05:30 on Saturday. The north quadrant of the roundabout closes from 23:00 on Saturday 7 November to 06:00 on Sunday, and the south quadrant from 22:30 on Sunday 8 November to 05:30 on Monday.
  • The M20 westbound link from junction 1 to the M25 anti-clockwise at junction 3 closes from 22:00 on Thursday 5 November to 05:30 on Friday, and from 23:00 on Friday 6 November to 06:00 on Saturday.

The long A282 night-works order. National Highways has given notice of about seven months of overnight work on the A282 between junction 2 (A2) and junction 30 (A13), starting on or after 7 October, with closures allowed 20:30 to 06:00 Sunday to Thursday and 20:00 to 10:00 on Friday and Saturday (notice NH/SE/2026/A282/70, Public Notice Portal). The portal now marks the notice as expired; the nights actually booked appear in the weekly report above.

Source: National Highways’ seven-day road closure report, the spreadsheet last updated on 2 November 2026 and read on 3 November.

Who runs which road

This is the fact that saves the most wasted phone calls. Two of the borough’s biggest roads are not the council’s at all: they are TfL red routes. The council’s own page spells out the boundaries. They are the A21 from the M25 to the Lewisham boundary at Bromley Hill, and the A232 from Locksbottom (Croydon Road) to the boundary with Croydon at West Wickham High Street. On those, TfL is responsible for roadworks, street lighting, road and pavement maintenance and winter gritting (Bromley Council red routes).

Everything else that is a public road is coordinated by the council. It permits and schedules works by its own contractors and by the utilities: Thames Water, Southern Gas Networks, BT Openreach, Virgin Media and UK Power Networks. All planned works must display a permit board naming who is digging and the permit number. Emergency works such as gas leaks can start before a permit is filed. Unpermitted works can be reported at fix.bromley.gov.uk, and the roadworks line is 0300 303 8658 (Bromley Council roadworks).

The contractor changed this summer. FM Conway took over the council’s highway maintenance work from 1 July 2026 under three contracts worth an estimated £106 million over their life (Bromley Council). It is the firm that now turns up to a reported pothole, a failed street light or a blocked gully. Full detail is in our report on the contract.

Decision helper showing who runs each road in the borough of Bromley: the A21 and A232 are TfL red routes, every other public road is coordinated by Bromley Council with problems reported at fix.bromley.gov.uk, and utility works belong to the company named on the permit board
Diagram by Bromley Online, from the council's roadworks and red-routes pages.
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The live maps that always have the answer

Roadworks lists date fast; these do not.

  • The council’s roadworks map shows current, planned and live traffic information for the borough, using roadworks.org data (Bromley Council).
  • one.network carries every permitted dig in the borough on a live national map (one.network).
  • TfL traffic status covers the red routes and everything London-wide (tfl.gov.uk/traffic/status), with Tube and rail status alongside.
  • National Highways covers the M25, which brushes the borough’s southern edge at the A21 junction (live travel updates).

Station parking, the evergreen version

If disruption pushes you onto the train, the parking picture at the two town-centre stations does not change often. It is also not what most people assume.

  • Bromley South has no station car park (Southeastern). The nearest large option is the council’s 24-hour multi-storey, The Hill on Beckenham Lane, with 340 spaces, pay by RingGo (Bromley Council). The council also runs the ANPR-operated Civic Centre car park off Stockwell Close. Full tariffs are in our parking guide.
  • Bromley North has an APCOA car park with about 213 spaces (APCOA). APCOA manages station parking across the Southeastern network (Southeastern).

Frequently asked questions

Is the A21 Masons Hill open again?

Yes. The northbound closure after the burst water main at Homesdale Road became temporary lights on the evening of 29 October. TfL listed the lights until 23:00 on Monday 2 November, and by the morning of 3 November the record had gone from its disruption list. TfL’s bus diversions around Masons Hill have also been withdrawn.

What is happening on Cray Avenue?

One southbound lane is closed on Cray Avenue (the A224) at the junction with Cray Valley Road, St Mary Cray, for UK Power Networks. It started on 30 September and TfL’s record runs to 18:00 on Friday 13 November. TfL says delays are possible.

Are Hayes line trains running on Sunday 8 November?

Not until about 09:15. Until then Charing Cross to Hayes trains run only as far as Lewisham, and accessible buses run between Lewisham and Hayes. The first normal trains are the 08:51 Charing Cross to Hayes, which leaves at 08:59, and the 09:41 from Hayes.

Are trains running from Charing Cross on 14 and 15 November?

No. Southeastern says no trains run to or from Charing Cross, Waterloo East or Cannon Street that weekend. Hayes line trains run to Blackfriars on the Saturday and to Victoria on the Sunday. On the Sunday, buses replace trains between Lewisham and Orpington, and Chislehurst and Elmstead Woods are served by bus only.

Are bus routes still diverted in Bromley?

Not according to TfL. Its bus disruption list on the morning of 3 November had no notice in the borough. The Masons Hill, St Mary Cray and Penge diversions that were listed on 30 October have all been withdrawn.

Has Plaistow Lane reopened?

Bromley Council has published no reopening notice since it closed the road in July, and its July statement is unchanged. TfL’s live records show no road closure and no bus diversion there, but that is not the council confirming anything. Check the live maps before you rely on it.

When is my road being resurfaced?

The council’s programme gives a start month, not a day. Bucks Cross Road in Chelsfield and patching on Cudham Lane South are listed for November 2026. Exact dates go up on signs at the roadside and on the council’s roadworks map.

Where can I see current roadworks in Bromley?

Two places always have the live answer: the council’s roadworks map and one.network. For the A21 and A232 red routes, check TfL’s traffic status as well.

Who is responsible for the A21 in Bromley?

Transport for London, not the council. The A21 is a red route from the M25 boundary all the way to Bromley Hill, so TfL handles its roadworks, lighting, surfacing and gritting (Bromley Council). The same goes for the A232 between Locksbottom and West Wickham High Street.

How do I report a pothole or unauthorised roadworks in Bromley?

Through the council’s reporting site, fix.bromley.gov.uk, for any road except the two red routes. Legitimate works display a permit board naming the company responsible; works without one are worth reporting. The repair itself is now carried out by FM Conway.

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