Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. It's the last one of the week.

I'm recording this just about half past 10 on Friday morning, of course, before the two minutes silence.

And I'm looking at the state of play across the capital and here we are severe delays

on the Bakerloo line on the Jubilee line on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground

and that's as a result of the strike which took place yesterday on the London Underground

which effectively brought it to a standstill.

You might have listened and heard me on the Elizabeth line, which itself was rather creaking at the seams.

And would you believe that just as the effects of the three-day RMT strike that never was were just running out. That was

train cancellations which continued up until Thursday morning. We got an announcement from

as left, the train drivers union, that they are going to be going on strike at a dozen train operators on the 26th of November.

Now, that is effectively going to be a national strike.

It doesn't by any means affect all train operators.

For example, Scott Rail Transport for Wales aren't affected neither is South Western Railway which runs

from the UK's busiest station, London Waterloo, and the busiest franchise, GTR, which includes

Great Northern, Southern Thameswick, Gatwick Express that will be running normally. But half of the 12 firms are

intercity operators that are going to have a significant effect on people. You've got the main

north-south lines of anti-west coast LNERR, great western railway, of course serving the west of England

and South Wales. And then East Midlands,

from Sheffield to London, St. Pancras, Cross Country, based in Manchester and Trans-Pennine

Express.

Oh, on top of that, mostly regional operators, so Chilton, Greater Anglia, Northern,

southeastern, West Midlands and the London

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