Rail passengers urged to check Monday travel

Rail passengers are being urged to cheque whether their trains are moving connected Monday arsenic the bulk of obstruction operators tally reduced services.

Only a fistful of bid companies volition tally a mean timetable, contempt strikes implicit wage and conditions being called disconnected connected Friday.

The strikes, planned for 5, 7 and 9 November, had been called successful a quality implicit wage and conditions.

Some services connected Wednesday are besides apt to beryllium disrupted.

Although the strikes are not going ahead, rosters for bid drivers are usually enactment successful spot and agreed a week successful advance.

The Rail Delivery Group, which represents the bid companies, said that the "short notice" cancellation of the strikes means that "train operator availability volition inevitably beryllium precise challenging and trust chiefly connected volunteers".

Nevertheless, immoderate of the 14 bid companies that were owed to beryllium affected by the strikes are moving a mean work connected Monday, including C2C and Greater Anglia.

However, the bulk are not, with immoderate saying the disruption volition besides impact services connected Wednesday.

Train companies are advising customers to cheque services earlier they travel, and marque further checks connected the day.

The RMT national said connected Friday it had called disconnected the strikes aft "the committedness of an offer" connected wage from the obstruction operating companies, and said it would participate "intensive negotiations" with the firms and Network Rail.

However, erstwhile contacted by the BBC, obstruction employers and the authorities said their presumption had not changed.

The suspension of the strikes is significant, arsenic it is the archetypal clip successful the RMT's long-running quality that a onslaught has been called disconnected to marque further talks easier.

New obstruction curate Huw Merriman said connected Friday that the authorities wanted to "work positively and constructively" to find a solution to the ongoing obstruction disputes.