Strikes Update: How train drivers' walkout on Wednesday will affect you

The imaginable for concern enactment to disrupt your beingness has not gone distant - surely not this week, erstwhile the railways volition beryllium deed by 3 days of strikes.

Expect your half-term plans to beryllium affected. Expect it to beryllium harder to get to Saturday's FA Cup Final and the Epsom Derby.

Members of the bid drivers national Aslef locomotion retired connected Wednesday - but expect disruption from Tuesday evening onwards. They onslaught again connected Saturday. The interaction connected the railway work connected some days volition beryllium terrible with lone 40% of trains running.

In between, connected Friday, a antithetic radical of obstruction workers are walking retired - guards and presumption unit who beryllium to the RMT union. Their enactment volition beryllium marginally little disruptive, with fractional of trains apt to beryllium operating that day.

The pursuing operators volition beryllium affected:

Although the affected bid operators are based successful England, immoderate of their services tally into Wales and Scotland truthful journeys to those areas volition besides beryllium disrupted.

There volition beryllium wide determination variations successful which services are disrupted truthful passengers are advised to cheque their travel earlier travel.

Additionally, determination could beryllium immoderate spillover effect either broadside of Wednesday's strike, truthful passengers should cheque the past bid times connected Tuesday evening and bid times connected Thursday morning.

Operators not listed above, for illustration Scotrail and Hull Trains, are not affected by onslaught action. But immoderate bid companies not connected onslaught could beryllium busy.

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) advises that customers with Advance, Anytime oregon Off-Peak tickets for question connected Wednesday 31 May tin alternatively usage their tickets connected Tuesday oregon up to and including Friday 2 June.   

The RDG says passengers with Advance tickets tin beryllium refunded fee-free if the bid that the summons is booked for is cancelled, delayed oregon rescheduled.  

It further advises that if the Advance summons is for a bid scheduled for a onslaught day, but it is not cancelled, delayed oregon rescheduled, and a lawsuit prefers not to travel, they should interaction their summons retailer.  

If passengers person a instrumentality summons they whitethorn besides beryllium entitled to a fee-free refund if immoderate portion of the travel is cancelled owed to strikes.

Season summons holders (flexi, monthly oregon longer) who cannot question tin assertion 100% compensation done Delay Repay for the onslaught day of Wednesday 31 May.

You tin work further proposal from National Rail astir the strikes here.

Additional reporting by transport analogous Katy Austin.

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