June 15th - Rail strikes in June

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

During the planned nationwide rail strikes for three dates in late June, only limited passenger train services will run – most of them on key links to and from London.

Members of the RMT rail union at Network Rail and 13 train operators voted 8:1 in favour of strike action over jobs, pay and conditions, and will stage 24-hour walkouts on 21, 23 and 25 June.

Here is the lowdown on all you need to know about the strikes.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Calder,
0:07.7	currently speeding along at about 90 miles an hour on the main line from Brighton via Gatwick Airport
0:15.5	to London. And I'm on this line because it's one of the few that will be operating a kind of half-decent service, at least during the day, on the strike days.
0:29.0	That's the 21st, the 23rd and the 25th of June.
0:34.3	We've now heard details from network rail, which controls the infrastructure and therefore
0:40.1	can tell us how many signal is they're going to be at work. And they say they're looking at,
0:46.6	well, roughly one in four or one in five trains running. They will be only on about half the network and having looked at the map, goodness,
0:57.7	if you're in Wales, if you're in Scotland, then very few trains will run. So let me take you
1:03.9	around the country. I'm going to be going crosswise, clockwise from the Thames estuary.
1:10.7	So there will be high-speed one link to
1:13.6	Ashford and on to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, but the timing means that a Euro star will actually
1:24.6	reduce the number of trains that are operating.
1:28.3	London to Brighton will be running, London to Southampton via Winchester.
1:35.3	Going to the western region from London Paddington, there will be a service to Exeter and Plymouth, perhaps surprisingly, but also unsurprisingly to Bristol, via Bath and to Cardiff.
1:50.5	No further, though, into Swansea.
1:54.8	You'll see Chiltern Lines has a few trains and also the West Coast Main Line is mostly going to be going London
2:02.7	to Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. East Midlands lines going as is the LNERE East Coast
2:11.8	Main Line. Those will be running from Edinburgh and Leeds to London and vice versa.
2:21.3	Great Anglia also looking okay and we're also going to see plenty of trains I hope to Stansted Airport and to Cambridge.
2:30.9	The cross-country services, to use the term, in its broadest sense, will be fairly limited.
2:40.0	Whilst go to Edinburgh, some trains running across the Pennines from kind of Liverpool, Manchester, to Leeds,
2:47.0	and across to either Flethorpe's or to Middlesbrough.
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