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Passengers warned of severe disruption due to drivers’ strikes on 1 and 3 February – with significant impact on the days before and after walkouts
- Due to a walkout of train drivers at 14 train companies, special timetables will be published on the National Rail Enquiries website on Friday
- Passengers are urged to check before they travel as there will be no service across large parts of the network
- Passengers who must travel should expect disruption, plan ahead and check when their last train will depart
RMT and ASLEF strikes will disrupt return to work rail travel between 3-7th January
- With the RMT striking on 3,4, 6 and 7 January only around 20% of services will operate and half of the network will shut down. There are likely to be even fewer services on 5 January due to a strike by drivers who belong to ASLEF
- Special timetables for the RMT strike dates have been published on National Rail Enquiries and train company websites. A special timetable for the ASLEF strike on 5 January will be published on Thursday
- On all five days trains will start later and finish much earlier than usual, between 7.30am and 6.30pm
- Passengers who must travel should expect disruption, plan ahead and check when their last train will depart
- The RMT leadership have also imposed an overtime ban across 14 train operators until 2 January, which may lead to short-notice cancellations with wide regional variations over the next few days.
RMT strike to cause severe rail disruption on Christmas Eve
- RMT strike action is set to severely impact train services across the country on Christmas Eve and passengers are being asked to only travel if absolutely necessary, and if possible to consider travelling another day
- Trains will finish around 3.00pm with wide regional variations – both earlier and later - with some last trains departing in the morning and some locations seeing no services at all
- Those who must travel should expect disruption, and plan and check services before starting their journeys.
Passengers warned to plan journeys in advance and only travel by train if absolutely necessary due to 48 hour strikes on 13, 14, 16 and 17 December
- With the RMT, TSSA and Unite staging strike action on 13, 14, 16 and 17 December, only around 20% of services will operate, and in some parts of the country there will be no trains at all and services finishing earlier on 24 December
- Special timetables will be published on National Rail Enquiries on Friday, with trains starting later and finishing much earlier than usual, between 7.30am and 6.30pm
- Passengers who must travel should expect disruption, plan ahead and check when their last train will depart
- The RMT leadership have also imposed an overtime ban across 14 train operators from 18 December until 2 January, which will disrupt travel during the festive period with wide regional variations
