New 24 Hour Southern Rail Strike Set for Tuesday

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With no service on West London line passing through H&F stations

A new 24 strike by Southern train guards running throughout Tuesday June 21 is set to cause more misery for travellers.

Services affected by this industrial action include Southern's trains running between Clapham Junction and Milton Keynes, taking in Imperial Wharf, West Brompton, Olympia and Shepherd's Bush, alongside the London Overground service.

The service normally runs three or four trains during rush hours and one per hour at other times and continues from Shepherd's Bush to Wembley Central, Harrow and Wealdstone then on to Watford Junction and Milton Keynes Central.

However, a map produced by Southern showing the effects of the strike on its services indicates that its trains will not be running on this line on Tuesday.

Overground services will run as normal and Southern tickets will be accepted but travellers are warned these trains could be much busier than usual.

Southern advises passengers affected by the strike to visit  RMT strike customer advice page, which includes more information about the times of trains, ticket acceptance and alternatives and compensation and refunds.

This strike - the fourth this year -by guards belonging to the RMT rail union is due to a dispute over the role of guards on new 12 carriage trains, where drivers would be responsile for closing doors and seeing the train off from stations will then rest with the driver.

Conductors would instead have an on-board role helping passengers. However, the RMT union believes this would be unsafe and say the change is unwanted by customers.

 

May 6, 2016