Train and Tube strikes September and October 2023: Dates and services affected
Which rail firms are affected?
The practice firms affected are:
- Avanti West Coast
- C2C
- Caledonian Sleeper
- Chiltern Railways
- CrossCountry
- East Midlands Railway
- Gatwick Express
- Greater Anglia
- GWR
- GTR Great Northern Thameslink
- Heathrow Express
- Island Line
- LNER
- Northern Trains
- Southeastern
- Southern
- Gatwick Express
- South Western Railway foremost line
- Stanstead Express
- SWR depot drivers
- TransPennine Express
- West Midlands Trains.
Advice for travelling throughout practice strikes
National Rail warns passengers to anticipate “significant disruption” on strike days. Services are additionally more likely to be disrupted and begin afterward the day instantly after.
National Rail has really useful that passengers:
- Use its Journey Planner. Passengers ought to test near the time of every strike date.
- Use its Live Trains web page for essentially the most up-to-date details about arrivals and departures
- Plan forward and test earlier than you journey. This contains checking your total journey, particularly when you’re travelling on the primary and final trains of strike days.
Train station ticket workplace closures
Nearly all railway station ticket workplaces are being shut and employees moved on to station platform and concourse duties, in response to the Rail Delivery Group (RDG). Ticket workplace services will stay open solely on the busiest stations.
Posters are being displayed in stations informing passengers about potential closures. The Government will make the ultimate choice on which workplaces shall be axed following a session. It isn’t identified how rapidly the primary workplaces will shut, however the closure programme is anticipated to final for 3 years.
Why are Aslef placing?
Aslef members are taking industrial motion as they push for a pay rise.
The union has criticised the federal government from failing to fulfill its negotiating workforce – normal secretary Mick Whelan, assistant normal secretary Simon Weller, and govt committee president Dave Calfe.
They final met representatives of the employers, the Rail Delivery Group, beneath the agreed post-pandemic framework of the Rail Industry Recovery Group, in April.
Mr Whelan added: “Do you bear in mind Where’s Wally? Well, what we need to know is Where’s Harper?
“We final noticed the Secretary of State for Transport in December.
“We final noticed Huw Merriman, the Rail Minister, in January.
“And we final noticed the practice firms in April.
“Since then, nothing. Nada. Zilch. Not a letter, not an electronic mail, not a textual content message, not a telephone name, not a WhatsApp. Not a phrase!”
