Industrial action to affect many National Rail services until the end of the day 

Route(s) affected

Various National Rail routes

Description

Strike action was announced by the ASLEF Union for the following train operators on the following days earlier this week:

ASLEF Union:

Tuesday 7 May – c2c, Gatwick Express, Greater Anglia (which includes Stansted Express), Great Northern, Southeastern, Southern, South Western Railway (which includes Island Line) and Thameslink

Wednesday 8 May - Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, Heathrow Express, London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway

Thursday 9 May - LNER, Northern and TransPennine Express

In addition, the above train operators are also subject to an overtime ban which runs until the end of service today, Saturday 11 May. This may alter the timetable of trains that will be running today.

Other industrial action:

RMT Union members announced that strike action will take place affecting ScotRail services on some routes on some weekends:

• Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May

• Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May

• Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June

More information:

For further information and FAQs, you can check our industrial action page here.

Check before you travel:

You can check your journey for the industrial action dates by using the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner.

The exceptions to the above are:

• ScotRail services on each weekend between Saturday 18 May and Sunday 2 June are not yet showing correctly in journey planners. Please check back closer to the time of travel.

Please take note of any Service Updates that may be showing with a warning triangle on your displayed journeys.