With nearly 55,000 rail workers on strike, millions of rail passengers across the country could be disrupted this week.
Most services will be shut down on Thursday and Saturday, whilemost LondonTubes will stop on Friday.
Some lines will be completely closed, while the rest will operate on skeleton timetables, with the potential for severe overcrowding.
On 18th and 20th August, many strikes on railway signals across England, Scotland and Wales, attention to railway failures and corresponding network rails for his staff. Therefore, all railway lines are affected to some extent. line.
But the worst disruption will be seen on lines operated by his 17 companies of striking employees. The operators involved are:
- Avanti West Coast
- C2C
- Chiltern Railways
- Cross Country Trains
- East Midlands Railway
- Gatwick Express
- Great Western Railway
- Greater Anglia
- GTR (including Gatwick Express)
- LNER
- Northern Trains
- Southeastern
- South Western Railway
- Southern
- Thameslink
- West Midlands Trains
- TransPennine Express
Nationwide action includes over 40,000 members of the RMT union, 2,500 members of the TSSA union and some Unite members .
Many routes will be closed, while the remaining routes will experience less than one-fifth of normal service levels.
All London Underground and Overground lines are also scheduled to close or run skeleton services on Friday.
This is due to another dispute between RMT and Transport for London (TfL), which will evict around 10,000 tube and 400 ground workers.
Meanwhile in West London he will find it difficult to travel by bus as his 1,600 drivers are on strike at seven depots.
The turmoil follows a recurring summer of strikes over a long-running dispute between trade unions and Network Rail over wages and working conditions.
Network Rail said it would offer a 4% wage hike next year if the railway hits a "modernization milestone", and next year he will offer a further 2% wage increase, raising the total to 8%. To do.
Union leaders said the proposal was "insignificant" and called for an increase in line with inflation, which has now reached almost 10%.
RMT accuses Network Rail of "trying to make union members poorer", but Network Rail said that unions used workers for "political campaigns" and "
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