Rail passengers across Britain are facing a week of disruption from strikes that will leave some parts of the country without trains on days of industrial action.
Members of the Aslef train drivers' union from 16 carriers have imposed a six-day ban on overtime from today until Saturday, which could lead to cancellations at short notice.
Workers will also stage three one-day strikes at several operators between tomorrow and Thursday as part of a long-running dispute over wages.
The services that do run on strike days this week are expected to start later and end earlier than normal. There have been no talks between the union and the train operators for over a year, and there has been no consultation with the government for some time.
The Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators, wrote to Aslef last week suggesting informal talks that could result in more formal negotiations.
But Aslef said its members have not had a pay rise in five years, and the union has accused the government of “giving up” on the dispute.
Here, MailOnline looks at the consequences for operators on strike days this week:
Tomorrow (Tuesday)
c2c
No trains on the entire C2C route on Tuesday.
Reduced service Wednesday through Saturday.
Greater Anglia
There will be no service on most routes on Tuesday, but a small number of key routes into London will have a reduced service for fewer hours of the day:
- Norwich/Colchester and London Liverpool Street
- Southend Victoria and London Liverpool Street
- Stansted Airport and London Liverpool Street
- Cambridge and London Liverpool Street
The first trains of the day on most routes on Wednesday start around 7am. The Stansted Express will operate a limited service of two or three trains per hour.
Govia Thameslink Railway: Great Northern, Thameslink, Southern and Gatwick Express
Very limited Thameslink shuttle service on Tuesdays from 7am to 7pm as follows:
- Only St Pancras, Luton Airport Parkway and Luton
- Only London Kings Cross and Cambridge
There will also be a very limited Southern shuttle service serving Gatwick Airport and London Victoria only, between 5am and 11pm on Tuesdays.
Services will start later than normal on Wednesday. A changed timetable between Wednesday and Friday with fewer services.
Southeastern
Very limited service on Tuesdays, with most routes and stations closed. Only 29 of the 165 South East stations will be open and no replacement buses will run.
But it is expected that there will be full service from Wednesday to Saturday.
Southwestern Railway
Very limited service on Tuesdays on a limited number of lines. Trains only run from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM and only between:
- Basingstoke and Salisbury
- London Waterloo and Basingstoke
- London Waterloo and Feltham via Twickenham
- London Waterloo and Guildford via Woking
- London Waterloo and Woking
There will be no service on the Eilandlijn on Tuesday. A revised service will run via SWR from Wednesday to Friday – with short notice cancellations possible.
Wednesday
Avanti West Coast
No service on Wednesday.
Reduced services on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, mainly on the Manchester and Birmingham routes due to the overtime ban and Wednesday's strike.
Chiltern Railways
No service on Wednesday.
Limited service on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as follows:
- 1 train per hour Marylebone – stations to Birmingham Moor Street (and vice versa)
- 2 trains per hour Marylebone – stations to Oxford (and vice versa)
- 1 train per hour Princes Risborough – stations to Aylesbury (and vice versa)
- Shuttle service Leamington Spa – stations to Stratford Upon Avon (and vice versa) during most of the day
- 1 train per hour Marylebone – stations to Aylesbury Vale Parkway (via Amersham) and vice versa
No service on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays as follows:
- Stourbridge Junction – stations to Birmingham Moor Street
- Northolt Park, Sudbury & Harrow Road, Sudbury Hill Harrow and South Ruislip
CrossCountry
No service on Wednesday.
Possible cancellations at short notice from Monday to Saturday.
East Midlands Railway
No service on Wednesday.
The normal schedule is scheduled from Monday to Saturday, but cancellations at short notice are possible.
Great Western Railroad
Extremely limited services on Wednesdays between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., only on these routes:
- Reading and Oxford
- Reading and Basingstoke
- Reading and Redhill (peak hours only)
- Reading and Newbury
- Westbury and Swindon (peak hours only)
- Cardiff and Bristol
- Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple
- Exeter St Davids and Exmouth (serving Exeter Central, Digby and Topsham only)
- Penzance/St Erth and St Ives (9.30am to 12.30pm and 3.30pm to 7pm)
- Plymouth and Gunnislake
From Monday to Saturday, normal service levels apply all day, but there may be some changes to services late at night at short notice.
The Night Riviera Sleeper service is canceled from Monday to Friday.
London Northwest Railway
No service on Wednesday.
Scheduled reduced service between Monday and Saturday.
West Midlands Trains
No service on Wednesday.
Between Monday and Saturday: planned reduction of services.
Thursday
London North Eastern Railway (LNER)
Reduced timetables between London and Edinburgh, London and Leeds on Thursday. No LNER services in Lincoln, Skipton, Bradford, Harrogate, Hull, Glasgow, Aberdeen or Inverness. LNER does not stop at Northallerton, Morpeth, Alnmouth, Reston or Dunbar.
Possible changes to services on Wednesday. There will be no LNER services to or from Inverness and rail replacement coaches.
There are also possible changes to services on Friday.
Northern
No northern services on Thursday.
Between Monday and Saturday most services will run as planned, but customers are advised to check before traveling as 'cancellations are likely at short notice'.
TransPennine Express
No service on Thursday.
Services may also be changed or canceled the evening before or the morning after Thursday. Cancellations at short notice are possible between Monday and Saturday.
