Train strikes: How Saturday's walkout will affect you

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Saturday would beryllium a bully time to not task precise far. A onslaught by Aslef bid drivers means that 60% of services connected the affected lines are expected to beryllium cancelled. Extra congestion connected the roads looks inevitable.

Of course, beingness is not truthful simple. There are trips that simply indispensable beryllium made: the infirmary visits, the agelong planned-for treats, the large events.

London looks particularly hard to question successful and retired of due to the fact that tens of thousands of radical volition beryllium making their mode to the superior for the FA Cup last astatine Wembley, a Test lucifer astatine Lord's, and a Beyoncé performance astatine the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. The Epsom Derby is besides on, and the lawsuit attracts a assemblage of 100,000.

Good luck with getting to each of those. There is nary anticipation of immoderate last-minute resolution. And adjacent if determination was, it would beryllium excessively precocious to get services up and running.

Which bid operators volition beryllium affected connected Saturday?

The pursuing operators volition beryllium affected:

  • Chiltern Railways
  • Cross Country
  • Greater Anglia
  • LNER
  • East Midlands Railway
  • Great Western Railway
  • Northern Trains
  • South Eastern
  • South Western railway
  • Transpennine Express
  • Avanti West Coast
  • West Midlands Trains
  • GTR, including Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express

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

What's the proposal for passengers?

Tickets for Saturday, 3 June tin beryllium utilized up to and including Tuesday, 6 June.

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

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

The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) advises that customers with advance, anytime oregon off-peak tickets for question connected Saturday, 2 June tin alternatively usage their tickets up to and including Tuesday, 6 June.   

The RDG says passengers with beforehand 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 beforehand 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 the Delay Repay strategy for the onslaught day of Saturday, 2 June.

You tin read more oregon watch this report astir wherefore radical are taking onslaught action.

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

Additional reporting by transport analogous Katy Austin.

How are you affected by the strikes? Are you taking portion successful onslaught action? You tin email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.

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