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Rail strikes

January 2025

  • Avanti West Coast trains at Euston station

    Rail passengers face disruption from Avanti strikes every Sunday until June

  • Polly Smythe

    Mick Lynch, you’re a legend – and the unapologetic working-class leader the left is missing

    Polly Smythe

December 2024

  • An Avanti West Coast train at Euston station in London in 2022

    Rail passengers face disruption as Avanti train managers strike

    RMT action on New Year’s Eve and 2 January over rest day working will mean ‘significantly reduced’ timetable
  • Lords gather for the state opening of parliament.

    Brief letters
    Labour must not duck House of Lords reform this time

    Brief letters: Constitutional reform | A royal Labour leader? | Spoonfuls of sugary milk | Cutting quiche calories | Strike training

    • Just 2% of some key trains on London to Manchester line run on time

    • Avanti West Coast workers to strike on New Year’s Eve

    • Christmas disruption likely as Avanti West Coast train managers vote to strike

November 2024

  • A tube train at a station

    RMT union calls off tube strikes planned for coming week

    Aslef has not called off Thursday’s train driver action but is meeting London Underground on Monday for talks

September 2024

  • Trains parked up on tracks at Clapham Junction station

    RMT rail workers vote to accept pay deals

  • LNER trains at King's Cross station in London

    Aslef train drivers vote to back pay deal and end two-year standoff

August 2024

  • An LNER train pulling into a station while passengers sit waiting

    LNER train driver strikes called off after successful union talks

  • LNER trains lined up at platforms at King's Cross station

    Former Tory rail minister says he understands Labour deal with unions

  • An LNER train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh

    Aslef train drivers announce 22 days of strike action on east coast mainline

  • temporary yellow barriers cordon off the platform gates at waterloo beneath the huge black and gold electronic info board.

    Aslef train drivers reach deal that could end rail strikes after two years of chaos

July 2024

  • the yellow and blue front of an an Avanti West Coast locomotive

    Unions hail UK’s rail renationalisation bills as a return to ‘public service’

    Separate measures in king’s speech will allow government to take operators into public ownership while Great British Railways is set up

May 2024

  • An oil platform in the Cromarty Firth near Invergordon in the Highlands of Scotland. 

    Business live
    Engineer Wood Group rejects £1.4bn bid from Dubai rival; TSB to shut 36 branches – as it happened

  • Passengers queuing at Heathrow airport

    E-gates back online after chaos at Heathrow and other UK airports

  • Southeastern trains wait at Charing Cross Station in London this morning. Rail passengers have been advised to check before travel.

    Train strikes to halt most trains in south-east England on Tuesday

  • A sign informing passengers about industrial action at Waterloo station in January 2024.

    Rail strikes restart as Aslef train drivers embark on new action

April 2024

  • Louise Haigh stands at a podium at the Trainline headquarters. Behind her is a Labour sign reading 'Let's get Britain's future back'.

    British railways under Tories are symbol of national decline, says Labour

    Party plans to nationalise network and ‘unlock the trapped potential’ of rail to drive economic growth across the country
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