Huge parts of Britain are without rail services this week with coordinated strikes bringing the country’s transport network to a standstill after recent talks failed to resolve a dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
Major transport hubs across the UK will see significantly reduced services today, with the public being warned to only travel by train if their journey is essential.
A reduced service will also be running tomorrow, Thursday 28 July, with some trains running later than normal.
Which trains operate on strike days?
Avanti West Coast
Avanti West Coast will announce their revised schedule as soon as possible and will provide more information on this once it is announced.
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Reduced service will be in place from 7:30am to 6:30pm, resulting in less than a third of normal service levels.
Two trains per hour will run from London Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Laindon, with the same number of trains running from London to Pitsea via Rainham. No trains will run through Ockendon or Chafford Hundred.
Caledonian sleeper
Although the Caledonian Sleeper staff themselves are not taking part in the strike, the action will still affect operations. As a result, all services scheduled for Wednesday 27 July are cancelled.
Chiltern Railways
Chiltern are advising customers that they will be running an extremely limited service, with no replacement bus service.
As a result, only one train per hour will run from London Marylebone to Oxford Parkway, Banbury, Aylesbury and between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham respectively.
The service will run between 8am and 5pm with no trains running north of Banbury.
Running
CrossCountry say they will provide a severely limited service, warning that customers should only travel when necessary.
On 27 July there are no northbound services to Birmingham New Street from Southampton until 8:10am and no services from Birmingham New Street to Southampton after 3:04pm. There is a very reduced service between Plymouth-Bristol-Birmingham-Edinburgh on 27 July and disruption to all journeys across the country on 28 July.
Services between Birmingham and Leicester are slightly reduced on 27 July.
East Midlands Railway
Only one train per hour will run between Nottingham-London and Sheffield-London. Away from the capital, just one train per hour will run from Nottingham to Derby and Leicester respectively.
There will also be one train per hour between Derby and Matlock.
A reduced service will also be running on Thursday 28 July with services starting at 7am and disruptions throughout the day.
Elizabeth Line
London’s newly established rail services will be affected by the strikes, with just two trains an hour running from London Paddington to Reading and Heathrow respectively.
In the eastern part of the capital, traffic will be reduced before 5 p.m. 12 trains will run every hour from Paddington to Abbey Wood before this number drops to six after 5pm.
Just two trains will run every hour between 7.30am and 5.30pm from London Liverpool Street to Shenfield.
Gatwick Express
All Gatwick Express trains are canceled on Wednesday 27 July.
Grand Central
Just three trains will run between London and Sunderland on July 27, with all services starting and ending at Northallerton.
On the west side, just three trains will once again run, with services starting and ending at Wakefield Kirkgate. The only stop on these services will be Doncaster.
Great Northern
Two trains per hour will run between London Bridge and Brighton on July 27 on the Great Northern and Thameslink routes. This will also apply to journeys from London Bridge to Gatwick Airport and the Three Bridges.
From London St Pancras International, two trains per hour will run to both Bedford and Luton.
One train per hour will run between London King’s Cross and Ely, and there will be an additional train once an hour between Cambridge and Ely. There will also be one train per hour running between King’s Cross and Cambridge, with two per hour for journeys from King’s Cross to Peterborough, Welywn Garden City and Stevenage via Hertford North.
On July 28, trains will depart from 7:00 a.m. and run on Sundays.
Great Western Rail
There will be significant disruption on Great Western Rail on Wednesday 27 July, with no services running in Cornwall, Devon, South Wales or on the Wessex Main Line.
Greater England
A significantly reduced service will only run between London Liverpool Street and Norwich, Colchester, Southend Victoria and Cambridge.
The Stansted Express will run, but also with a reduced service for part of the day.
Heathrow Express
On 27 July between 7.30am and 6.30pm there will be a half-hourly reduced service.
Hull Trains
Services will run between Doncaster and London Kings Cross between 7.30am and 6.30pm only.
Island line
Normal service will run as there is no strike action.
LNER
LNER will offer a reduced service of two trains per hour between Edinburgh and London and one train per hour between Leeds and London.
London North Western Railway
A limited service will only run between Crewe – Birmingham New Street and London Euston – Birmingham New Street between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
London above ground
There will be significant disruption to London Overground. On July 27 there will be no service between Romford and Upminster, Barking and Barking Riverside, Surrey Quays and New Cross; and Kilburn High Road and Euston. There will be no service between Camden Road and Stratford until 12pm and between Sydenham and Crystal Palace until 10am.
There will be minimal service on July 28, with normal service resuming around midday, while service will be down on July 30.
Lumo
Only one departure on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 at 12.41pm.
There is a reduced service from Kings Cross, Morpeth, Newcastle and Edinburgh on 27 and 28 July.
Mercyrail
On July 27, Merseyrail will be affected by staff shortages, running hourly calls at selected stations only between 7.30am and 6.30pm.
There will be no trains from Chester and Ellesmere Port and there will be no service on the Hunts Cross line.
Northern
There is minimal disruption between Darlington and Saltburn on 27 July. There is a disruption between Liverpool and Alderley Edge services and there will be no trains departing or arriving at Ulleskelf and Church Fenton on the York-Leeds route.
There are major disruptions on the route between Ilkley and Leeds or Bradford Forster Square, as well as on the Skipton to Leeds route.
There are minimal disruptions on the Sheffield-Leeds route, with regular trains from Leeds to Sheffield starting at 7:48am, as well as hourly trains between Leeds and Bradford Forster Square.
No other services will be performed.
ScotRail
ScotRail will run a very limited service on July 27 between 7.30am and 6.30pm, with two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow via Falkirk High; two trains per hour between Edinburgh and Bathgate; two per hour between Glasgow and Hamilton/Larchall; and two per hour for Glasgow-Lanark.
There will be one train per hour between Edinburgh and Glasgow via Shotts.
Southwest Railway
A severely limited service will run between 7.15am and 6.30pm on some routes on July 27, with the rest of the network closed. Trains running are expected to be very busy.
There are two trains per hour in each direction between London Waterloo and Southampton Central, and two per hour between London Waterloo and Basingstoke.
There will be four trains per hour each way between London Waterloo and Woking and four per hour between London Waterloo and Windsor, also in both directions.
Southeast
Passengers are being warned to expect major disruption on July 27, with only 44 of 180 stations open and no rail bus services operating. The last trains back to London will also run much earlier than usual and passengers may also be unable to board trains where there is a limited service, particularly at Ashford and Ebbsfleet.
On July 28th there will be no services before 7:00am and on July 30th there will be no services at all.
Southern
On July 27, two trains per hour will run between London Victoria and Brighton; London Bridge and Brighton; London Bridge and Gatwick Airport; and between London Bridge and Three Bridges.
There will also be a limited service between London Victoria and Sutton, Epsom Downs and West Croydon.
On July 28, services will begin at 7.00 am and a Sunday service will be held.
TransPennine Express
A very limited service will run on July 27 with just five departures each departing from Preston to Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport throughout the day. There are also disruptions on the route between Manchester Piccadilly and York and on the Newcastle-Edinburgh route.
There is also a limited service between Cleethorpes and Sheffield.
Transport to Wales
On July 27, a reduced service will run between Cardiff Central and Treherbert, Aberdare, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, while an hourly service will run between Cardiff and Newport from 7.30am to 6.30pm.
No other services will be performed.
West Midlands Railway
A limited service will run on July 27 between 7.30am and 6pm, with one train per hour between Lichfield Trent Valley and Redditch; one train per hour between Lichfield Trent Valley and Bromsgrove in each direction, while from 5pm departures from Lichfield Trent Valley will only run to Birmingham New Street.
Additional morning services will run between Birmingham New Street – Redditch and Birmingham New Street – Lichfield Trent Valley.
There will be one train in each direction between Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street, stopping at all local stations, and one train per hour in each direction between Birmingham New Street and Crewe.
Services to and from Birmingham New Street and Birmingham International and between Birmingham New Street-Northampton will run hourly in each direction.
On July 28, morning services will resume later on most routes.
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