The train operator advised passengers to use alternative routes with South West Trains and Chiltern Trains and has offered refunds to travellers who decide not to travel on Saturday.
James Henderson is also co-founder of Travelspinner.com, a website connecting travellers to specialist tour operators and travel companies.
Tim Bryan, Guardian journalist The web has always been a superb companion for solo travellers, and when it comes to travel, social networks are actually social (but do be careful how much personal information you make known).
She read out loud some blogs his team had written in her voice, about how it's important when travelling to use the hotel safe – "Stay alert, travellers!" – and how, if you're in Spain, you should try the tapas.
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "It is extremely disappointing that Network Rail's engineering works have overrun and will affect travellers during this festive season, passengers will be rightly annoyed.
Foffi said refugees' journeys typically started three months before arrival at the shores of north Africa, and involved hardships that saw around half of the travellers die.
Most banks will change American dollars and travellers' cheques and most credit cards are accepted in major cities.
It's known as a winter sports destination, but savvy travellers head to Switzerland's Engadine in autumn, when the larches turn golden, the skies are ice blue and there's a dusting of snow on the mountaintops.
Once a popular hangout among artists and writers, from Paul Bowles to Allen Ginsberg and Matisse, who loved the raffish air and wild, drug-fuelled parties, the city had fallen out of favour since its Fifties' heyday as travellers headed to Marrakesh, but things look set to change.
Feeling rather social after our picnic, and keen to spy on our fellow travellers, we popped into the buffet car.
Sites such as couchsurfing.com, airbnb.com and iStopover.com are already connecting thousands of solo travellers with spare rooms across the world, with the added perk of a friendly host thrown in.
