Please sign in to post.
Holiday Sale! Save 20% Storewide!

names of train companies in 2nd of June strike

Posted by (Northamptonshire, England) on

so you can tell if the train company you want to ride on is actually on strike below are names on strike.

While the strike is against 14 companies, there are actually 18 brand names you would be looking for because some companies run trains under different names (in parenthesis).

Scotrail in Scotland and Transport for Wales in Wales are not actually on strike. You may find their services busier because of folks using them instead of their usual company.

Check with strike page of the company you want to travel with. Fewer routes will be served and less frequently but on the 2nd some trains will run. Check before travel.

the train companies which will be on strike in the RMT strike on the 2nd of June are:

  • Avanti West Coast

  • c2c

  • Chiltern Railways

  • Cross Country Trains

  • East Midlands Railway

  • Greater Anglia

  • Great Western Railway (GWR)

  • GTR (including Southern, Great Northern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express)

  • LNER

  • Northern Trains

  • South Eastern

  • South Western Railway

  • Transpennine Express (newly operated by government but still old name so far)

  • West Midlands Trains (including West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway)

so 14 companies but 18 brand names

Posted by
5 posts

Thank you so much for the info Nigel! This is now another day of travel that we will have impacted by the industrial action. We are set to travel from York to Bath via a Cross Country (connecting to GWR) train. Do you happen to have any suggestions for a solid Plan B to get from York to Bath if our train is indeed not running?

Thank you for any ideas you may have - this has been extremely stressful trying to make additional plans from another country! :-)

Posted by
33783 posts

the 2nd of June strike is RMT so some trains will run over a shortened day.

watch carefully the strike pages of both GWR and Cross Country. They will post an amended timetable.

If Cross Country were to leave you in the lurch you could LNER to London and GWR to Bristol or Bath.

Or consider a coach like National Express.

The surrounding ASLEF strikes that week will be more difficult.

Posted by
7781 posts

As it's an RMT strike day I'd be very relaxed over it, knowing that LNER will get me to London (broadly hourly), in more than enough time to make an hourly GWR train to Bath, all in the event that Cross Country were not running any service on that route.
However if I wanted something I could book now and file away as 'job done' I would either 1) book a Grand Central train York to KX (they are unaffected by strikes), give myself 2 hours to cross London, then an hourly Nat Ex coach London Victoria to Bath or 2) Book NatEx through from Leeds to Bath changing at Birmingham and Bristol- connecting York to Leeds on the frequent Yorkshire Coastliner bus. That's quite a nice trip for it's breaks at Leeds (time to see the market across the road- and stock up on food/drink for the journey), Birmingham (ditto the market, which is literally round the corner from the coach station, and has free restrooms) and then a transfer break again at Bristol- so not just on the coach all day. That route is longer than the train, but friendlier on the wallet!

This topic has been automatically closed due to a period of inactivity.