"neverwas" wrote

The press release which is clearly linked from your first link says
clearly what is going to happen through 2009 and in to 2010.

Yes but the first link (which I had seen) does *not* mention the full
closure of the NLL between Stratford and Gospel Oak from Christmas through
to April 2010 in its list of "The planned London Overground service
disruptions starting in 2009". It omits the third bullet in para 6 of the
PR. I'll accept that is more likely to be cock-up rather than conspiracy
but it does matter to those of us who, for example, are already buying
theatre titckets for 2010.

Any bets on when TfL are going to let passengers know what's actually
happening?

On past practice probably about 4-6 weeks before the major changes
occur. Therefore I'd expect something imminently - say in the next 10
days? There needs to be info out there well before Christmas
because people won't have a train service once they go back to work
in the New Year!

Through trains from Stratford to Richmond are in the train service database
at least up to 5th February 2010.