This week, commuters and holidaymakers alike will be hit by two UK-wide train strikes, as members of the RMT Union walk out for 24 hours on both Thursday 18 and Saturday 20 August.
In between, London travel will be hampered by a Tube strike and a bus strike on 19 August, as members of the RMT and Unite unions walk out in unison on Friday, as well as bus drivers employed by London United walking out on both 19 and 20 August.
For the UK-wide affected days – Thursday and Saturday – not every service will be cancelled, though train companies have published heavily slashed schedules.
So which trains are planned to run on the two RMT strike days? Here’s everything we know.
Avanti West Coast
Avanti will run a heavily reduced service on 18 and 20 August, and has published its timetables for both days. Between 8am and 4pm, one hourly service is scheduled to run from Euston to Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Preston, with a limited service on to Glasgow.
The first service of the day from Glasgow to London on Thursday is at 7.54, with three further services at 10.08, 12.22 and 14.37. On Saturday the first Glasgow-London service is at 8.27am. Only four trains will run from London Euston all the way to Glasgow Central (with stops at the Lake District, Preston and Carlisle): the 8.30, 10.30, the 12.07 and the 13.30.
By and large, all “last services of the day” depart before 4pm – the last Liverpool Lime Street to London Euston train leaves at 15.56. Trains to Manchester Piccadilly will call at Stafford and Crewe only. Avanti is advising all customers against non-essential train travel.
C2C
”Severe disruption expected” reads the alert from C2C, which is expecting to run around a third of normal services, with trains running between 7.30am and 6.30pm only. These will include:
- Two trains per hour from Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Laindon
- Two trains per hour from Fenchurch Street to Pitsea via Rainham
The first trains on both 18 and 20 August will be:
07.30 Shoeburyness to Fenchurch Street
07.32 Basildon to Fenchurch Street
07.36 Grays to Fenchurch Street
07.44 Pitsea to Fenchurch Street via Rainham
The last trains on both 18 and 20 August will be:
17.00 Fenchurch Street to Pitsea via Rainham
17.05 Fenchurch St to Shoeburyness via Laindon
17.28 Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness
17.37 Fenchurch Street to Grays via Rainham
Chiltern Railway
Chiltern services will only run from 8am-5pm. The train services on Thursday will be:
- One train per hour Marylebone – stations to…
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