A month of rail disruption has begun, with workers walking out in the first of a wave of 48-hour strikes.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union are pressing ahead with strikes today (December 13) and tomorrow, and on Friday and Saturday. Trains are only running from 7.30am to 6.30pm on this week’s strike days, although many parts of the country will have no services, including most of Scotland and Wales.
The action is the latest in the long-running dispute over pay and conditions for rail workers. Passengers are being urged not to travel by rail in the coming days.
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Here is a breakdown of each operator’s plan for strike days this week, from A-Z:
– Avanti West Coast
There is one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston.
A limited service is operating to Glasgow.
Several areas are not being served, such as Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury.
– c2c
There are two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham, and Shoeburyness via Laindon.
No trains are running to or from Ockendon or Chafford Hundred.
– Caledonian Sleeper
All departures on Tuesday and Wednesday night are cancelled.
– Chiltern Railways
No trains are running north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station.
There is one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe; Banbury; and Oxford Parkway.
The same frequency is in place between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham.
– CrossCountry
A very limited service is in place.
No direct services are running to and from Birmingham New Street and these locations: Penzance via Bristol Temple Meads and Plymouth; Cardiff Central; Stansted Airport via Peterborough and Cambridge; and Nottingham.
– East Midlands Railway
Just one train per hour is running in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Corby, Nottingham and Sheffield.
There is the same frequency between Derby and both Matlock and Nottingham; between Sheffield and Nottingham; and between Leicester and Nottingham.
All other routes are closed.
– Gatwick Express
Services are suspended. Passengers travelling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains.
– Grand Central
Just three trains in each direction are running between London King’s Cross and Northallerton, and two between King’s Cross and Wakefield Kirkgate.
– Great Northern
There are very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn.
– Great Western Railway
Only a very limited service is running, such as between London Paddington and Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford and Plymouth.
– Greater Anglia
The company is not running any trains on its regional and branch lines.
Only a very limited service is operating on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street.
– Heathrow Express
A full service is operating, but only between 7.30am and 6.17pm.
– Hull Trains
Only four trains are running between Doncaster and London King’s Cross.
– London North Eastern Railway
A limited timetable is in operation, with the London King’s Cross-Edinburgh route having just eight trains in each direction.
– London Northwestern Railway
A limited service is connecting Birmingham New Street with Crewe, London Euston and Wolverhampton.
Other routes are closed.
– Lumo
A reduced timetable is in place with just two trains each way between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh.
– Merseyrail
A limited service is operating.
No trains are running between Chester and Rock Ferry, Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry, or Liverpool Central and Hunts Cross.
– Northern
Passengers are urged “do not travel” as only a small number of routes have trains.
Open routes include Liverpool to Manchester; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield.
– ScotRail
Trains are only running across the Central Belt, Fife and the Borders.
– South Western Railway
A “severely limited service” is running, and only between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking.
– Southeastern
The vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex is closed.
Only 44 out of 180 stations are open.
The high-speed route to Ashford International is open.
– Southern
Much of the network is shut down.
Services running include those on the Brighton Mainline to London Bridge and London Victoria.
– Stansted Express
Two trains per hour are running between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport.
– Thameslink
There are far fewer trains than normal.
Services are split north and south, with nothing running between London St Pancras and London Bridge.
– TransPennine Express
Only a reduced timetable is operating on these routes: Between York and Manchester Piccadilly; between Cleethorpes and Sheffield; and between Preston and Manchester Airport.
– Transport for Wales
Most lines are closed.
An hourly service is running between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere.
- West Midlands Railway
A limited service is operating only between Lichfield Trent Valley and Redditch/Bromsgrove via Birmingham New Street.
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