ASLEF Rail Strike 1 September

South Eastern trains (to Kent) and Southern Trains ( to Sussex and the South Coast) will run no services at all on 1 September - announcement at Victoria when I was there very late last night.
The only exception is a very limited non stop southern service, in lieu of Gatwick Express, from Gatwick to Victoria.
Thameslink are also running no service.
London North Western Railway are also running no trains that day.
Greater Anglia are only running the Norwich to London, Stansted airport to London and Southend Victoria to London routes.
Avanti West Coast, Trans Pennine. Chiltern Railways and Northern Rail are running no services.

For anyone visiting Harry Potter land at Watford, the only trains running will.be the all.stations London Overground "DC" trains from Euston.

Bletchley will have no service.

Murphy's Law, we have to travel from London to Nuneaton on September 1st to visit my son in law's family. Bus tickets already purchased. Now getting from Nuneaton to London to catch the Eurostar on September 3rd? We are still working that issue. I support labor so do what you need to do!

Well the Sunday trains from Nuneaton are now open for booking

Heathrow Express is running half hourly between 8am and 7 pm.

The Elizabeth Line should be operating normally from Heathrow as Transport for London are not party to the dispute.
Details are not yet confirmed but it may not run East of Liverpool Street due to other companies closures that day.

Update from TfL this morning-

Although TfL staff are not taking strike action, there may be some minor impacts to TfL services.

So they are expecting the Elizabeth line and London Overground (which is a whole network of suburban overground routes- what could very loosely be seen as the equivalent of an S Bahn system in a German city) to run as normal. Most of the overground beyond the Watford Junction line is barely known to tourists but has a number of very useful central London avoiding routes.

Heathrow Express:

Due to industrial action, the following services are amended. Please check this page for the latest updates as this is subject to change.

Saturday 26th August and Saturday 2nd September 2023.
A normal service will operate with the following amendments:
Last Train departs London Paddington at 20:40.
Last Train departs Heathrow Terminal 5 at 20:42.
Last Train departs Heathrow Central at 20:47.

Friday 1st September 2023.
A reduced service will operate with the following amendments:
First train departs London Paddington at 07:25, then every 30 minutes until the last train at 18:25.
First train departs Heathrow Terminal 5 at 07:57, then every 30 minutes until the last train at 18:57.
First train departs Heathrow Central at 08:02, then every 30 minutes until the last train at 19:02.

GWR:

Friday 1 September – Strike day
An extremely limited service will operate. There will be a reduced operating window; services will start at 07:00 and must be completed by around 18:30. If you intend to travel where trains are operating, please do check both outward and return journeys.

A very limited service will run only on the following routes between:

London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads
Reading and Oxford/Banbury
Reading and Basingstoke
Reading and Redhill (AM/PM peak only)
Reading and Newbury (AM/PM peak only)
Westbury and Swindon (AM/PM peak only)
Cardiff and Bristol Temple Meads
Exeter St Davids and Barnstaple
Exeter St Davids and Exmouth
Plymouth and Gunnislake
Penzance and St Ives

This is the PROVISIONAL LNER timetable- to be confirmed- https://www.lner.co.uk/globalassets/friday-01-september-2023-provisional-strike-day-timetable.pdf
No trains running beyond Edinburgh to Glasgow Central, Aberdeen and Inverness (use Scotrail), or to Skipton, Harrogate, Sunderland [use Grand Central), Middlesbrough, Hull (use Hull Trains) and Lincoln

EDITED- South Western Trains are only operating on the Waterloo to Woking, Waterloo to Basingstoke, Guildford to Woking and Waterloo to Twickenham routes.
All other lines, including to Southampton and to Salisbury are closed for the day.

The Caledonian Sleeper will run but will not call at Watford Junction as the station will be closed due to no staff.