Rail strike map, dates and services

2023-05-11

Rail strike map, dates and services: How is YOUR train journey affected by the May 2023 walkout?

Rail services across Britain will be crippled again tomorrow and on Saturday by yet more strike action – with not a single train due to operate on some lines.

Members of Aslef and the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at train operators will walk out in long-running disputes on Friday and Saturday respectively.

There will be no trains tomorrow on Avanti West Coast, Chiltern, CrossCountry, East Midlands, Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Heathrow Express, London Northwestern, Northern, Southeastern, Southern, Thameslink or West Midlands.

A reduced service will run on most operators on Saturday – but trains will be busier than normal, and services are likely to start later and finish earlier than usual.

It comes as RMT workers this week voted to strike for another six months, paving the way for a second ‘summer of discontent’ on the railways. Aslef has also vowed to carry on striking, meaning holidaymakers and commuters face further chaos.

In March, 20,000 RMT members who work for Network Rail accepted a 9 per cent rise in a separate dispute. But the standoff involving the 14 operators covering most of England and Wales has remained unresolved, along with the Aslef one.

Aslef also plans to strike on May 31 and June 3 – the day of the FA Cup Final. Here, MailOnline goes through plans for the strike days tomorrow and on Saturday:

AVANTI WEST COAST

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: Fewer trains than normal will run and only between 7am and 7pm, with the exception of some services to and from Liverpool which is hosting the Eurovision song contest. The weekend services of one train per hour from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street has been maintained from early morning until late afternoon. The first service will leave Euston at 6.08am and there will be one service an hour until 4.31pm which will arrive at Liverpool for 7.04pm.

C2C

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: No major impact but all services will run to/from London Fenchurch Street and will not call at London Liverpool Street or Stratford.

CALEDONIAN SLEEPER

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: The Caledonian Sleeper does not operate on Saturday nights.

CHILTERN RAILWAYS

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: No trains will run north of Banbury. Services that do run will be limited to one train per hour in both directions between London Marylebone and each of Banbury, Oxford and Aylesbury via Amersham, and only between around 9am and 9pm.

CROSSCOUNTRY

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: No direct services will run to or from Birmingham New Street and locations such as Aberdeen, Cambridge, Cardiff, Glasgow, Nottingham and Stansted Airport. Services that do run will only operate between 7am and 7pm.

EAST MIDLANDS RAILWAY

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: Services will run between 7am and 7pm. They will be limited to just one train per hour in each direction between London St Pancras and each of Nottingham, Sheffield and Corby, as well as a handful of regional routes such as between Derby and Matlock.

ELIZABETH LINE

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: The Elizabeth line is not involved in the industrial dispute with the RMT but there will be some alterations to its services. These include no trains between Maidenhead and Reading before 7am or after 7pm.

EUROSTAR

Friday and Saturday: Usual timetable

GATWICK EXPRESS

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: No trains but Southern and Thameslink will serve Gatwick Airport.

GRAND CENTRAL

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: Grand Central is not involved in the industrial dispute with the RMT but there will be minor alterations to its services.

GREAT NORTHERN

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A limited service will run and only between 7am and 7pm. There will be no trains between Ely and King’s Lynn.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY

Friday: A limited service will run and only between 7.30am and 6.30pm. The only open routes will be between: London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads; Reading and Didcot; Reading and Basingstoke; Reading and Redhill; Westbury and Swindon; Cardiff and Bristol; and Plymouth and Gunnislake. The Night Riviera sleeper service has been cancelled.
Saturday : A limited service will run and only between 7.30am and 6.30pm. More routes will be open compared with Friday, including additions such as between London Paddington and Didcot Parkway; London Paddington and Cardiff; Slough and Windsor; and Penzance and Plymouth.

GREATER ANGLIA

Friday: A reduced service will run and only between London Liverpool Street and each of Cambridge, Norwich, Southend and Stansted Airport.
Saturday: Trains will run between 7am and 11pm. Some routes will have a reduced frequency, but most will have a normal or near normal service.

HEATHROW EXPRESS

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: No trains after 9pm.

HULL TRAINS

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: Usual timetable.

LONDON NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (LNER)

Friday and Saturday: A limited timetable will operate and only between London King’s Cross and both Edinburgh and Leeds.

LONDON NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A limited service will run and only between 7am and 7pm. The only open routes will be between Birmingham New Street and each of London Euston, Birmingham International and Liverpool Lime Street.

LONDON OVERGROUND

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: London Overground is not involved in the industrial dispute with the RMT but there will be minor alterations to some of its services. This includes no service between Richmond and Kew Gardens before 7am and after 11pm; and no service between Watford High Street and Watford Junction before 7am and after 7pm. There will also be no service between Sydenham and West Croydon, with buses replacing trains.

LONDON UNDERGROUND

Friday : Usual timetable.
Saturday : London Underground is not involved in the industrial dispute with the RMT. But there will be some changes to services on the Central line, with no Night Tube between Marble Arch and Loughton / Hainault (via Newbury Park) from 2am until 4.45am. From 4.45am and for the rest of the day as well as Sunday, there will be no service between Liverpool Street and Woodford / Newbury Park. And on the District line, until 7am and from 11pm, there will be none between Gunnersbury and Richmond. The Overground will still serve Kew Gardens but not Richmond.

LUMO

Friday and Saturday: Usual timetable.

MERSEYRAIL

Friday and Saturday: No impact from the strikes. Additional services will run due to Eurovision.

NORTHERN

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A limited service will run and only between 8am and 5pm. Only a handful of routes will be open, such as between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester; Leeds and York; and Darlington and Saltburn.

SCOTRAIL

Friday and Saturday: Usual timetable.

SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

Friday: No trains on the Isle of Wight. Services will be reduced between London Waterloo and Exeter, in the Romsey area and on the suburban network.
Saturday: A reduced service will operate and only between 7am and 7pm. The only open routes will be between London Waterloo and each of Windsor via Hounslow; Windsor via Richmond; Woking; and Basingstoke; between Basingstoke and Salisbury; and on the Isle of Wight

SOUTHEASTERN

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A reduced service will operate, with only 58 out of 180 stations open. Trains that do run will be busier than normal, and services are likely to start later and finish earlier than usual.

SOUTHERN

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A reduced service will operate. No trains will run between Hemel Hempstead and Clapham Junction; London Bridge and Norwood Junction; Southampton Central and Barnham; and Eastbourne and Ashford International.

STANSTED EXPRESS

Friday: Frequencies will be halved to one train per hour in each direction.
Saturday: Frequencies will be halved to one per hour in each direction, and trains will start later and finish earlier than normal.

THAMESLINK

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: Services will be split north and south, with nothing running between London St Pancras and London Blackfriars.

TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A reduced timetable will operate and only between Liverpool Lime Street and each of Huddersfield, Preston and Sheffield, and between Sheffield and Cleethorpes.

TRANSPORT FOR WALES

Friday: Usual timetable.
Saturday: Transport for Wales is not involved in the industrial dispute with the RMT but some of its services will be disrupted. Several stations such as Birmingham International, Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Piccadilly will only be open for services between 7am and 7pm.

TRANSPORT FOR WALES: Almost the entire Transport for Wales network (shown above) will be closed during the strike day

WEST MIDLANDS RAILWAY

Friday: No trains.
Saturday: A limited service will run and only between 7am and 7pm. The only open routes will be between Birmingham New Street and each of Wolverhampton, Rugeley Trent Valley and Lichfield Trent Valley; between Kidderminster and Whitlocks End/Dorridge; and between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town.

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