Rail companies cut services by a fifth today as thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite hit queues across the country in a serious dispute over pay and working conditions. The latest wave of industrial action – which will see services end at 6.30pm. today and Saturday – is set to cause four days of travel hell for students getting their A-level results today, as well as workers, holidaymakers and sports and music fans. Mr Lynch – who has compared himself to Margaret Thatcher’s Communist rival Arthur Scargill, declared class war at a Westminster rally and called for a general strike if Liz Truss is elected prime minister next month – vowed today to unleash a succession of waves of mass industrial action until unions reach a negotiated deal with Network Rail. Standing in a queue outside Euston station alongside Jeremy Corbyn and pictured raising a fist in solidarity with striking rail workers, the hard-liner branded Transport Secretary Grant Shapps “hysterical” – and dismissed real concerns that millions of low-wage workers workers must WFH “cannot afford to have rail workers strike” this winter as energy bills are set to rise. Education Secretary James Cleverly accused Mr Lynch and his fellow unionists of “holding the country hostage”, speaking on Sky News this morning: “They’ve got a very good pay packet, they’ve got incredibly good, ridiculously good terms and conditions and what they make it through these strikes, they’re disadvantaged people trying to get to work, trying to put food on the table, trying to keep a roof over their heads. “I think Grant Shapps has made it abundantly clear that these strikes are unfair and completely inappropriate, and it’s wrong that people are being held hostage by unions in this way.” Economists fear that if unions decide to trigger another wave of strikes this winter, just as energy prices are set to soar above £4,000 a year, then millions of households could find themselves in ‘fuel poverty’ – as the country faces the biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years. It comes amid a growing cost-of-living crisis fueled by Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, as inflation spirals out of control – hitting 10% yesterday and expected to top 13% in October – and the Bank of England fears that a year of recession will be destroyed from this winter. EUSTON: RMT boss Mick Lynch stands in a queue outside Euston station raising a fist with rail workers today LONDON BRIDGE STATION: Closed before opening late with first National Rail services at 7.30am. WATERLOO: People wait on the platform at London’s Waterloo station as a new round of rail strikes begins today WATERLOO: A woman is seen sleeping on a bench at London’s Waterloo station this morning Network Rail has issued this map showing expected services on routes across Britain today and Saturday EUSTON: Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside Euston station today PETERBOROUGH: Thameslink and Great Northern trains lined up at Peterborough windows this morning WATERLOO: A service information board at London Waterloo shows a number of closures this morning due to the rail strike BLACKWALL TUNNEL: Traffic queues on the approach to the A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel at Greenwich in South East London JUBILEE LINE: Passengers travel on the London Underground’s Jubilee line this morning
How will every train operator in the UK be affected by the latest rail strikes?
UK rail companies have published plans for how their services will change during this week’s rail strikes. Today and Saturday, only about a fifth of normal services will run and half the lines will be closed. Trains will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on both strike days and will start later than normal on subsequent mornings. Here’s a breakdown of each operator’s plan for today and Saturday: Avanti West Coast The carrier is running reduced hours from Sunday as many drivers no longer volunteer to work on rest days for extra pay. On strike days there will be one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston. A limited service will operate to Glasgow. Several areas will not be served, including Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury. c2c It will run less than a third of normal services. These will consist of two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Laindon, and the same frequency between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred. Caledonian Sleeper All departures canceled for last night, tonight and Friday night. Chiltern Railways Today: No trains will run north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station. There will be one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe. Banbury? and Oxford Parkway. The same frequency will be between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham. // // Saturday: No trains will run north of High Wycombe or Aylesbury due to a combination of scheduled engineering work and strike action. There will be two trains per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and High Wycombe and one per hour between London Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham. CrossCountry Today: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted Airport. A very limited service is planned between Birmingham and Bristol. Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Leicester? Manchester? and Southampton via Reading. // // Saturday: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted. A very limited service is scheduled from Birmingham to Manchester and Southampton and from Derby to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. East Midlands Railway Just one train per hour will run in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham and Sheffield. and between Derby and Matlock and Nottingham. There will also be an hourly service between Nottingham and Leicester today but not on Saturday. All other routes will be closed. Gatwick Express services will be suspended. Passengers traveling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains. Grand Central Just three trains in each direction will run between London King’s Cross and Northallerton and Wakefield Kirkgate. Great Northern There will be very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn. Great Western Railway There will be no services on many routes, including all of Cornwall, branch lines in Devon, between Cardiff and Swansea and between Bath and Portsmouth. Greater Anglia On strike days, the company will not run trains on its regional and branch lines. A very limited service will operate on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street. The full Heathrow Express A service will run, but only between 7.30am and 6.10 p.m. Hull Trains will only run between Doncaster and London King’s Cross, with five in each direction. London North Eastern Railway Today: Only two trains per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and one per hour for part of the route. Saturday: Only one train per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and two per hour will run part of the way. London Northwestern Railway A limited service will run to and from New Street Birmingham and both Crewe and London Euston. Other routes will be closed. Lumo A reduced timetable will apply between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh. Merseyrail A limited service will operate. No trains will run between Chester and Rock Ferry or Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry. Northern passengers are being told to ‘not travel’ as only a small number of routes will have trains. Routes that will be open include Liverpool to Manchester. Manchester to Alderley Edge; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield. ScotRail trains will only cross the Central Belt, Fife and Borders. South Western Railway A “very limited service” will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking. Southeastern Only 44 of its 180 stations will be open, with the vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex closed. The high speed route to Ashford International will be open. Southern Much of the network will be closed. Services will run on the Brighton Main Line to London Bridge and London Victoria, with additional trains from Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Sutton and West Croydon via Crystal Palace. Stansted Express Two trains an hour will run between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport today. No details have been released for Saturday. Thameslink There will be far fewer trains than normal. Services will be split north and south, with nothing between London St Pancras and London Bridge. TransPennine Express There will only be a very limited service, with these routes open: Manchester Airport to Preston. Manchester Piccadilly to York; Newcastle to Edinburgh? and Cleethorpes in Sheffield. Transport for Wales Most routes will be closed. An hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere. West Midlands Railway A limited service will only run between Lichfield Trent Valley and…
title: “Uk Rail Strikes Militant Mick Lynch Holds Commuters Hostage As Britain Faces Recession Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-24” author: “Vickie Long”
Rail companies cut services by a fifth today as thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite hit queues across the country in a serious dispute over pay and working conditions. The latest wave of industrial action – which will see services end at 6.30pm. today and Saturday – is set to cause four days of travel hell for students getting their A-level results today, as well as workers, holidaymakers and sports and music fans. Mr Lynch – who has compared himself to Margaret Thatcher’s Communist rival Arthur Scargill, declared class war at a Westminster rally and called for a general strike if Liz Truss is elected prime minister next month – vowed today to unleash a succession of waves of mass industrial action until unions reach a negotiated deal with Network Rail. Standing in a queue outside Euston station alongside Jeremy Corbyn and pictured raising a fist in solidarity with striking rail workers, the hard-liner branded Transport Secretary Grant Shapps “hysterical” – and dismissed real concerns that millions of low-wage workers workers must WFH “cannot afford to have rail workers strike” this winter as energy bills are set to rise. Education Secretary James Cleverly accused Mr Lynch and his fellow unionists of “holding the country hostage”, speaking on Sky News this morning: “They’ve got a very good pay packet, they’ve got incredibly good, ridiculously good terms and conditions and what they make it through these strikes, they’re disadvantaged people trying to get to work, trying to put food on the table, trying to keep a roof over their heads. “I think Grant Shapps has made it abundantly clear that these strikes are unfair and completely inappropriate, and it’s wrong that people are being held hostage by unions in this way.” Economists fear that if unions decide to trigger another wave of strikes this winter, just as energy prices are set to soar above £4,000 a year, then millions of households could find themselves in ‘fuel poverty’ – as the country faces the biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years. It comes amid a growing cost-of-living crisis fueled by Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, as inflation spirals out of control – hitting 10% yesterday and expected to top 13% in October – and the Bank of England fears that a year of recession will be destroyed from this winter. EUSTON: RMT boss Mick Lynch stands in a queue outside Euston station raising a fist with rail workers today LONDON BRIDGE STATION: Closed before opening late with first National Rail services at 7.30am. WATERLOO: People wait on the platform at London’s Waterloo station as a new round of rail strikes begins today WATERLOO: A woman is seen sleeping on a bench at London’s Waterloo station this morning Network Rail has issued this map showing expected services on routes across Britain today and Saturday EUSTON: Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside Euston station today PETERBOROUGH: Thameslink and Great Northern trains lined up at Peterborough windows this morning WATERLOO: A service information board at London Waterloo shows a number of closures this morning due to the rail strike BLACKWALL TUNNEL: Traffic queues on the approach to the A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel at Greenwich in South East London JUBILEE LINE: Passengers travel on the London Underground’s Jubilee line this morning
How will every train operator in the UK be affected by the latest rail strikes?
UK rail companies have published plans for how their services will change during this week’s rail strikes. Today and Saturday, only about a fifth of normal services will run and half the lines will be closed. Trains will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on both strike days and will start later than normal on subsequent mornings. Here’s a breakdown of each operator’s plan for today and Saturday: Avanti West Coast The carrier is running reduced hours from Sunday as many drivers no longer volunteer to work on rest days for extra pay. On strike days there will be one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston. A limited service will operate to Glasgow. Several areas will not be served, including Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury. c2c It will run less than a third of normal services. These will consist of two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Laindon, and the same frequency between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred. Caledonian Sleeper All departures canceled for last night, tonight and Friday night. Chiltern Railways Today: No trains will run north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station. There will be one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe. Banbury? and Oxford Parkway. The same frequency will be between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham. // // Saturday: No trains will run north of High Wycombe or Aylesbury due to a combination of scheduled engineering work and strike action. There will be two trains per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and High Wycombe and one per hour between London Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham. CrossCountry Today: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted Airport. A very limited service is planned between Birmingham and Bristol. Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Leicester? Manchester? and Southampton via Reading. // // Saturday: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted. A very limited service is scheduled from Birmingham to Manchester and Southampton and from Derby to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. East Midlands Railway Just one train per hour will run in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham and Sheffield. and between Derby and Matlock and Nottingham. There will also be an hourly service between Nottingham and Leicester today but not on Saturday. All other routes will be closed. Gatwick Express services will be suspended. Passengers traveling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains. Grand Central Just three trains in each direction will run between London King’s Cross and Northallerton and Wakefield Kirkgate. Great Northern There will be very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn. Great Western Railway There will be no services on many routes, including all of Cornwall, branch lines in Devon, between Cardiff and Swansea and between Bath and Portsmouth. Greater Anglia On strike days, the company will not run trains on its regional and branch lines. A very limited service will operate on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street. The full Heathrow Express A service will run, but only between 7.30am and 6.10 p.m. Hull Trains will only run between Doncaster and London King’s Cross, with five in each direction. London North Eastern Railway Today: Only two trains per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and one per hour for part of the route. Saturday: Only one train per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and two per hour will run part of the way. London Northwestern Railway A limited service will run to and from New Street Birmingham and both Crewe and London Euston. Other routes will be closed. Lumo A reduced timetable will apply between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh. Merseyrail A limited service will operate. No trains will run between Chester and Rock Ferry or Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry. Northern passengers are being told to ‘not travel’ as only a small number of routes will have trains. Routes that will be open include Liverpool to Manchester. Manchester to Alderley Edge; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield. ScotRail trains will only cross the Central Belt, Fife and Borders. South Western Railway A “very limited service” will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking. Southeastern Only 44 of its 180 stations will be open, with the vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex closed. The high speed route to Ashford International will be open. Southern Much of the network will be closed. Services will run on the Brighton Main Line to London Bridge and London Victoria, with additional trains from Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Sutton and West Croydon via Crystal Palace. Stansted Express Two trains an hour will run between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport today. No details have been released for Saturday. Thameslink There will be far fewer trains than normal. Services will be split north and south, with nothing between London St Pancras and London Bridge. TransPennine Express There will only be a very limited service, with these routes open: Manchester Airport to Preston. Manchester Piccadilly to York; Newcastle to Edinburgh? and Cleethorpes in Sheffield. Transport for Wales Most routes will be closed. An hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere. West Midlands Railway A limited service will only run between Lichfield Trent Valley and…
title: “Uk Rail Strikes Militant Mick Lynch Holds Commuters Hostage As Britain Faces Recession Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-05” author: “Rachel Poole”
Rail companies cut services by a fifth today as thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite hit queues across the country in a serious dispute over pay and working conditions. The latest wave of industrial action – which will see services end at 6.30pm. today and Saturday – is set to cause four days of travel hell for students getting their A-level results today, as well as workers, holidaymakers and sports and music fans. Mr Lynch – who has compared himself to Margaret Thatcher’s Communist rival Arthur Scargill, declared class war at a Westminster rally and called for a general strike if Liz Truss is elected prime minister next month – vowed today to unleash a succession of waves of mass industrial action until unions reach a negotiated deal with Network Rail. Standing in a queue outside Euston station alongside Jeremy Corbyn and pictured raising a fist in solidarity with striking rail workers, the hard-liner branded Transport Secretary Grant Shapps “hysterical” – and dismissed real concerns that millions of low-wage workers workers must WFH “cannot afford to have rail workers strike” this winter as energy bills are set to rise. Education Secretary James Cleverly accused Mr Lynch and his fellow unionists of “holding the country hostage”, speaking on Sky News this morning: “They’ve got a very good pay packet, they’ve got incredibly good, ridiculously good terms and conditions and what they make it through these strikes, they’re disadvantaged people trying to get to work, trying to put food on the table, trying to keep a roof over their heads. “I think Grant Shapps has made it abundantly clear that these strikes are unfair and completely inappropriate, and it’s wrong that people are being held hostage by unions in this way.” Economists fear that if unions decide to trigger another wave of strikes this winter, just as energy prices are set to soar above £4,000 a year, then millions of households could find themselves in ‘fuel poverty’ – as the country faces the biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years. It comes amid a growing cost-of-living crisis fueled by Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, as inflation spirals out of control – hitting 10% yesterday and expected to top 13% in October – and the Bank of England fears that a year of recession will be destroyed from this winter. EUSTON: RMT boss Mick Lynch stands in a queue outside Euston station raising a fist with rail workers today LONDON BRIDGE STATION: Closed before opening late with first National Rail services at 7.30am. WATERLOO: People wait on the platform at London’s Waterloo station as a new round of rail strikes begins today WATERLOO: A woman is seen sleeping on a bench at London’s Waterloo station this morning Network Rail has issued this map showing expected services on routes across Britain today and Saturday EUSTON: Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside Euston station today PETERBOROUGH: Thameslink and Great Northern trains lined up at Peterborough windows this morning WATERLOO: A service information board at London Waterloo shows a number of closures this morning due to the rail strike BLACKWALL TUNNEL: Traffic queues on the approach to the A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel at Greenwich in South East London JUBILEE LINE: Passengers travel on the London Underground’s Jubilee line this morning
How will every train operator in the UK be affected by the latest rail strikes?
UK rail companies have published plans for how their services will change during this week’s rail strikes. Today and Saturday, only about a fifth of normal services will run and half the lines will be closed. Trains will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on both strike days and will start later than normal on subsequent mornings. Here’s a breakdown of each operator’s plan for today and Saturday: Avanti West Coast The carrier is running reduced hours from Sunday as many drivers no longer volunteer to work on rest days for extra pay. On strike days there will be one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston. A limited service will operate to Glasgow. Several areas will not be served, including Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury. c2c It will run less than a third of normal services. These will consist of two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Laindon, and the same frequency between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred. Caledonian Sleeper All departures canceled for last night, tonight and Friday night. Chiltern Railways Today: No trains will run north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station. There will be one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe. Banbury? and Oxford Parkway. The same frequency will be between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham. // // Saturday: No trains will run north of High Wycombe or Aylesbury due to a combination of scheduled engineering work and strike action. There will be two trains per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and High Wycombe and one per hour between London Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham. CrossCountry Today: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted Airport. A very limited service is planned between Birmingham and Bristol. Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Leicester? Manchester? and Southampton via Reading. // // Saturday: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted. A very limited service is scheduled from Birmingham to Manchester and Southampton and from Derby to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. East Midlands Railway Just one train per hour will run in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham and Sheffield. and between Derby and Matlock and Nottingham. There will also be an hourly service between Nottingham and Leicester today but not on Saturday. All other routes will be closed. Gatwick Express services will be suspended. Passengers traveling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains. Grand Central Just three trains in each direction will run between London King’s Cross and Northallerton and Wakefield Kirkgate. Great Northern There will be very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn. Great Western Railway There will be no services on many routes, including all of Cornwall, branch lines in Devon, between Cardiff and Swansea and between Bath and Portsmouth. Greater Anglia On strike days, the company will not run trains on its regional and branch lines. A very limited service will operate on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street. The full Heathrow Express A service will run, but only between 7.30am and 6.10 p.m. Hull Trains will only run between Doncaster and London King’s Cross, with five in each direction. London North Eastern Railway Today: Only two trains per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and one per hour for part of the route. Saturday: Only one train per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and two per hour will run part of the way. London Northwestern Railway A limited service will run to and from New Street Birmingham and both Crewe and London Euston. Other routes will be closed. Lumo A reduced timetable will apply between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh. Merseyrail A limited service will operate. No trains will run between Chester and Rock Ferry or Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry. Northern passengers are being told to ‘not travel’ as only a small number of routes will have trains. Routes that will be open include Liverpool to Manchester. Manchester to Alderley Edge; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield. ScotRail trains will only cross the Central Belt, Fife and Borders. South Western Railway A “very limited service” will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking. Southeastern Only 44 of its 180 stations will be open, with the vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex closed. The high speed route to Ashford International will be open. Southern Much of the network will be closed. Services will run on the Brighton Main Line to London Bridge and London Victoria, with additional trains from Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Sutton and West Croydon via Crystal Palace. Stansted Express Two trains an hour will run between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport today. No details have been released for Saturday. Thameslink There will be far fewer trains than normal. Services will be split north and south, with nothing between London St Pancras and London Bridge. TransPennine Express There will only be a very limited service, with these routes open: Manchester Airport to Preston. Manchester Piccadilly to York; Newcastle to Edinburgh? and Cleethorpes in Sheffield. Transport for Wales Most routes will be closed. An hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere. West Midlands Railway A limited service will only run between Lichfield Trent Valley and…
title: “Uk Rail Strikes Militant Mick Lynch Holds Commuters Hostage As Britain Faces Recession Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-25” author: “Rupert Thomas”
Rail companies cut services by a fifth today as thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite hit queues across the country in a serious dispute over pay and working conditions. The latest wave of industrial action – which will see services end at 6.30pm. today and Saturday – is set to cause four days of travel hell for students getting their A-level results today, as well as workers, holidaymakers and sports and music fans. Mr Lynch – who has compared himself to Margaret Thatcher’s Communist rival Arthur Scargill, declared class war at a Westminster rally and called for a general strike if Liz Truss is elected prime minister next month – vowed today to unleash a succession of waves of mass industrial action until unions reach a negotiated deal with Network Rail. Standing in a queue outside Euston station alongside Jeremy Corbyn and pictured raising a fist in solidarity with striking rail workers, the hard-liner branded Transport Secretary Grant Shapps “hysterical” – and dismissed real concerns that millions of low-wage workers workers must WFH “cannot afford to have rail workers strike” this winter as energy bills are set to rise. Education Secretary James Cleverly accused Mr Lynch and his fellow unionists of “holding the country hostage”, speaking on Sky News this morning: “They’ve got a very good pay packet, they’ve got incredibly good, ridiculously good terms and conditions and what they make it through these strikes, they’re disadvantaged people trying to get to work, trying to put food on the table, trying to keep a roof over their heads. “I think Grant Shapps has made it abundantly clear that these strikes are unfair and completely inappropriate, and it’s wrong that people are being held hostage by unions in this way.” Economists fear that if unions decide to trigger another wave of strikes this winter, just as energy prices are set to soar above £4,000 a year, then millions of households could find themselves in ‘fuel poverty’ – as the country faces the biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years. It comes amid a growing cost-of-living crisis fueled by Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, as inflation spirals out of control – hitting 10% yesterday and expected to top 13% in October – and the Bank of England fears that a year of recession will be destroyed from this winter. EUSTON: RMT boss Mick Lynch stands in a queue outside Euston station raising a fist with rail workers today LONDON BRIDGE STATION: Closed before opening late with first National Rail services at 7.30am. WATERLOO: People wait on the platform at London’s Waterloo station as a new round of rail strikes begins today WATERLOO: A woman is seen sleeping on a bench at London’s Waterloo station this morning Network Rail has issued this map showing expected services on routes across Britain today and Saturday EUSTON: Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside Euston station today PETERBOROUGH: Thameslink and Great Northern trains lined up at Peterborough windows this morning WATERLOO: A service information board at London Waterloo shows a number of closures this morning due to the rail strike BLACKWALL TUNNEL: Traffic queues on the approach to the A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel at Greenwich in South East London JUBILEE LINE: Passengers travel on the London Underground’s Jubilee line this morning
How will every train operator in the UK be affected by the latest rail strikes?
UK rail companies have published plans for how their services will change during this week’s rail strikes. Today and Saturday, only about a fifth of normal services will run and half the lines will be closed. Trains will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on both strike days and will start later than normal on subsequent mornings. Here’s a breakdown of each operator’s plan for today and Saturday: Avanti West Coast The carrier is running reduced hours from Sunday as many drivers no longer volunteer to work on rest days for extra pay. On strike days there will be one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston. A limited service will operate to Glasgow. Several areas will not be served, including Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury. c2c It will run less than a third of normal services. These will consist of two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Laindon, and the same frequency between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred. Caledonian Sleeper All departures canceled for last night, tonight and Friday night. Chiltern Railways Today: No trains will run north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station. There will be one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe. Banbury? and Oxford Parkway. The same frequency will be between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham. // // Saturday: No trains will run north of High Wycombe or Aylesbury due to a combination of scheduled engineering work and strike action. There will be two trains per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and High Wycombe and one per hour between London Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham. CrossCountry Today: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted Airport. A very limited service is planned between Birmingham and Bristol. Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Leicester? Manchester? and Southampton via Reading. // // Saturday: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted. A very limited service is scheduled from Birmingham to Manchester and Southampton and from Derby to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. East Midlands Railway Just one train per hour will run in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham and Sheffield. and between Derby and Matlock and Nottingham. There will also be an hourly service between Nottingham and Leicester today but not on Saturday. All other routes will be closed. Gatwick Express services will be suspended. Passengers traveling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains. Grand Central Just three trains in each direction will run between London King’s Cross and Northallerton and Wakefield Kirkgate. Great Northern There will be very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn. Great Western Railway There will be no services on many routes, including all of Cornwall, branch lines in Devon, between Cardiff and Swansea and between Bath and Portsmouth. Greater Anglia On strike days, the company will not run trains on its regional and branch lines. A very limited service will operate on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street. The full Heathrow Express A service will run, but only between 7.30am and 6.10 p.m. Hull Trains will only run between Doncaster and London King’s Cross, with five in each direction. London North Eastern Railway Today: Only two trains per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and one per hour for part of the route. Saturday: Only one train per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and two per hour will run part of the way. London Northwestern Railway A limited service will run to and from New Street Birmingham and both Crewe and London Euston. Other routes will be closed. Lumo A reduced timetable will apply between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh. Merseyrail A limited service will operate. No trains will run between Chester and Rock Ferry or Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry. Northern passengers are being told to ‘not travel’ as only a small number of routes will have trains. Routes that will be open include Liverpool to Manchester. Manchester to Alderley Edge; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield. ScotRail trains will only cross the Central Belt, Fife and Borders. South Western Railway A “very limited service” will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking. Southeastern Only 44 of its 180 stations will be open, with the vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex closed. The high speed route to Ashford International will be open. Southern Much of the network will be closed. Services will run on the Brighton Main Line to London Bridge and London Victoria, with additional trains from Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Sutton and West Croydon via Crystal Palace. Stansted Express Two trains an hour will run between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport today. No details have been released for Saturday. Thameslink There will be far fewer trains than normal. Services will be split north and south, with nothing between London St Pancras and London Bridge. TransPennine Express There will only be a very limited service, with these routes open: Manchester Airport to Preston. Manchester Piccadilly to York; Newcastle to Edinburgh? and Cleethorpes in Sheffield. Transport for Wales Most routes will be closed. An hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere. West Midlands Railway A limited service will only run between Lichfield Trent Valley and…
title: “Uk Rail Strikes Militant Mick Lynch Holds Commuters Hostage As Britain Faces Recession Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-28” author: “Carol Cough”
Rail companies cut services by a fifth today as thousands of members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT), Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) and Unite hit queues across the country in a serious dispute over pay and working conditions. The latest wave of industrial action – which will see services end at 6.30pm. today and Saturday – is set to cause four days of travel hell for students getting their A-level results today, as well as workers, holidaymakers and sports and music fans. Mr Lynch – who has compared himself to Margaret Thatcher’s Communist rival Arthur Scargill, declared class war at a Westminster rally and called for a general strike if Liz Truss is elected prime minister next month – vowed today to unleash a succession of waves of mass industrial action until unions reach a negotiated deal with Network Rail. Standing in a queue outside Euston station alongside Jeremy Corbyn and pictured raising a fist in solidarity with striking rail workers, the hard-liner branded Transport Secretary Grant Shapps “hysterical” – and dismissed real concerns that millions of low-wage workers workers must WFH “cannot afford to have rail workers strike” this winter as energy bills are set to rise. Education Secretary James Cleverly accused Mr Lynch and his fellow unionists of “holding the country hostage”, speaking on Sky News this morning: “They’ve got a very good pay packet, they’ve got incredibly good, ridiculously good terms and conditions and what they make it through these strikes, they’re disadvantaged people trying to get to work, trying to put food on the table, trying to keep a roof over their heads. “I think Grant Shapps has made it abundantly clear that these strikes are unfair and completely inappropriate, and it’s wrong that people are being held hostage by unions in this way.” Economists fear that if unions decide to trigger another wave of strikes this winter, just as energy prices are set to soar above £4,000 a year, then millions of households could find themselves in ‘fuel poverty’ – as the country faces the biggest squeeze on living standards in 60 years. It comes amid a growing cost-of-living crisis fueled by Putin’s savage invasion of Ukraine, as inflation spirals out of control – hitting 10% yesterday and expected to top 13% in October – and the Bank of England fears that a year of recession will be destroyed from this winter. EUSTON: RMT boss Mick Lynch stands in a queue outside Euston station raising a fist with rail workers today LONDON BRIDGE STATION: Closed before opening late with first National Rail services at 7.30am. WATERLOO: People wait on the platform at London’s Waterloo station as a new round of rail strikes begins today WATERLOO: A woman is seen sleeping on a bench at London’s Waterloo station this morning Network Rail has issued this map showing expected services on routes across Britain today and Saturday EUSTON: Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside Euston station today PETERBOROUGH: Thameslink and Great Northern trains lined up at Peterborough windows this morning WATERLOO: A service information board at London Waterloo shows a number of closures this morning due to the rail strike BLACKWALL TUNNEL: Traffic queues on the approach to the A102(M) Blackwall Tunnel at Greenwich in South East London JUBILEE LINE: Passengers travel on the London Underground’s Jubilee line this morning
How will every train operator in the UK be affected by the latest rail strikes?
UK rail companies have published plans for how their services will change during this week’s rail strikes. Today and Saturday, only about a fifth of normal services will run and half the lines will be closed. Trains will only run between 7.30am and 6.30pm on both strike days and will start later than normal on subsequent mornings. Here’s a breakdown of each operator’s plan for today and Saturday: Avanti West Coast The carrier is running reduced hours from Sunday as many drivers no longer volunteer to work on rest days for extra pay. On strike days there will be one train per hour in both directions between London Euston and each of Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Preston. A limited service will operate to Glasgow. Several areas will not be served, including Blackpool, Edinburgh, North Wales and Shrewsbury. c2c It will run less than a third of normal services. These will consist of two trains per hour in each direction between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness via Laindon, and the same frequency between London Fenchurch Street and Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred. Caledonian Sleeper All departures canceled for last night, tonight and Friday night. Chiltern Railways Today: No trains will run north of Banbury or to/from Oxford station. There will be one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Aylesbury via High Wycombe. Banbury? and Oxford Parkway. The same frequency will be between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham. // // Saturday: No trains will run north of High Wycombe or Aylesbury due to a combination of scheduled engineering work and strike action. There will be two trains per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and High Wycombe and one per hour between London Marylebone and Aylesbury via Amersham. CrossCountry Today: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted Airport. A very limited service is planned between Birmingham and Bristol. Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. Leicester? Manchester? and Southampton via Reading. // // Saturday: There will be no direct services between Birmingham and Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Nottingham, Peterborough and Stansted. A very limited service is scheduled from Birmingham to Manchester and Southampton and from Derby to Edinburgh via Leeds, York and Newcastle. East Midlands Railway Just one train per hour will run in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham and Sheffield. and between Derby and Matlock and Nottingham. There will also be an hourly service between Nottingham and Leicester today but not on Saturday. All other routes will be closed. Gatwick Express services will be suspended. Passengers traveling to or from Gatwick Airport can use Southern and Thameslink trains. Grand Central Just three trains in each direction will run between London King’s Cross and Northallerton and Wakefield Kirkgate. Great Northern There will be very few trains, with no services east of Ely to King’s Lynn. Great Western Railway There will be no services on many routes, including all of Cornwall, branch lines in Devon, between Cardiff and Swansea and between Bath and Portsmouth. Greater Anglia On strike days, the company will not run trains on its regional and branch lines. A very limited service will operate on some routes to and from London Liverpool Street. The full Heathrow Express A service will run, but only between 7.30am and 6.10 p.m. Hull Trains will only run between Doncaster and London King’s Cross, with five in each direction. London North Eastern Railway Today: Only two trains per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and one per hour for part of the route. Saturday: Only one train per hour will run between Edinburgh and London King’s Cross and two per hour will run part of the way. London Northwestern Railway A limited service will run to and from New Street Birmingham and both Crewe and London Euston. Other routes will be closed. Lumo A reduced timetable will apply between London King’s Cross and Edinburgh. Merseyrail A limited service will operate. No trains will run between Chester and Rock Ferry or Ellesmere Port and Rock Ferry. Northern passengers are being told to ‘not travel’ as only a small number of routes will have trains. Routes that will be open include Liverpool to Manchester. Manchester to Alderley Edge; York to Leeds; and Leeds to Sheffield. ScotRail trains will only cross the Central Belt, Fife and Borders. South Western Railway A “very limited service” will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Southampton, Windsor and Woking. Southeastern Only 44 of its 180 stations will be open, with the vast majority of the network in Kent and East Sussex closed. The high speed route to Ashford International will be open. Southern Much of the network will be closed. Services will run on the Brighton Main Line to London Bridge and London Victoria, with additional trains from Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, Sutton and West Croydon via Crystal Palace. Stansted Express Two trains an hour will run between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport today. No details have been released for Saturday. Thameslink There will be far fewer trains than normal. Services will be split north and south, with nothing between London St Pancras and London Bridge. TransPennine Express There will only be a very limited service, with these routes open: Manchester Airport to Preston. Manchester Piccadilly to York; Newcastle to Edinburgh? and Cleethorpes in Sheffield. Transport for Wales Most routes will be closed. An hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport, with limited trains elsewhere. West Midlands Railway A limited service will only run between Lichfield Trent Valley and…
