Rail passengers will suffer fresh travel chaos on Wednesday (October 5) because of another strike in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Members of the drivers’ union Aslef and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) will walk out, causing huge disruption to services.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan told the PA news agency the dispute would now continue until the Government intervened. He urged Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan to “lift the shackles” from train companies so they could make a pay offer to workers. He said: "The message I am receiving from my members is that they are in this for the long haul and if anything they want industrial action to be increased".
The train drivers’ strike will affect Avanti West Coast, Chiltern, CrossCountry, East Midlands Trains, Greater Anglia (including Stansted Express), Great Western, Hull Trains, LNER, London Overground, Northern Trains, Southeastern, Transpennine Express and West Midlands Trains. Members of the TSSA will strike at CrossCountry and take other forms of industrial action at several other operators.
