November 25th - Looking ahead to Saturday's Rail Strikes
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
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🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Simon Calder gives you the rundown on what is and isn't running with Saturday's Aslef union strike action.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the final travel podcast of the week for The Independent with me, Simon Calder, |
| 0:08.6 | and I'm looking ahead to tomorrow Saturday the 26th of November, yet more rail strife. |
| 0:17.2 | Members of the Aslef Union, who are train drivers working for 11 train operators, |
| 0:24.2 | are stopping work. And as a result of that, thousands of trains will be cancelled. |
| 0:31.1 | Having said that, thousands of trains will also run. And so I wanted to spin through what was |
| 0:36.6 | happening, what's not happening, so that you can make your journey plans sensibly |
| 0:42.3 | this is all part of a dispute over pay I've had a chat with Mick Whelan the general secretary of |
| 0:49.3 | aslev the driver's union and he basically just says that the train operators are not negotiating that they |
| 0:56.8 | keep saying to him go to the government the government say nothing to do with us talk to the train |
| 1:01.3 | operators and it goes around in circles catch 22 was how he described it anyway whatever kind |
| 1:08.3 | of catch it is it's going to catch out lots of passengers tomorrow. |
| 1:12.9 | The six mostly intercity operators are Avanti West Coast, cross-country East Midlands Railway, Great Western Railway, or GWR, LNERR or London Northeastern Railway, and Trans-Pennine Express. |
| 1:27.3 | And the remaining five are mostly regional, so that's Chiltern, running in and out of London, Paddington, northwest of London, Greater Anglia, out of London, Liverpool Street, towards Essex and into East Anglia. |
| 1:39.9 | Northern, well, pretty much anything you want between the Scottish border and about crew. |
| 1:45.6 | Southeastern, that's from London, either high speed or conventional train, into southeast, |
| 1:53.1 | London, a bit of Surrey, East Sussex and Kent. |
| 1:59.0 | And then finally, West Midlands trains, which does a lot, obviously, within the West Midlands trains which does a lot obviously |
| 2:03.2 | within the West Midlands but also does some longer trains through its brand |
| 2:07.1 | London Northwestern Railway and well some of them are going to be running |
| 2:12.8 | trains Greater Anglia is doing a kind of London to Norwich, London's South End, |
| 2:20.8 | and London to Stansted Airport once every hour. |
| 2:24.5 | That will be handy. |
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