Industrial strike action will mean there are to be no Island Line trains on 2 separate days at the start of February.
Train drivers who are members of the RMT union, depot drivers and Island Line drivers who are members of the ASLEF union, will take part in national strike action on Wednesday 1st and Friday 3rd February.
Anyone who has already purchased tickets for either of the affected days will see them valid on the day before strike action up until Tuesday 7th February.
Whilst strike action was expected, Island Line services have struggled in recent months due lack of staffing and technical issues affecting the quality of services on offer to Islanders.
A statement from South Western Railway reads as follows:
“We are sorry that there will be no service on the Island Line as a result of this strike action. If you have purchased a ticket to travel on the Island Line on these days, please see the compensation information below.”
For information regarding ticket acceptance, refunding and compensation visit the SWR website.
Train drivers are members of the ASLEF union and they are the ones taking this action, not RMT
If you can afford to take time off unpaid to strike then you don’t need the extra month
Really and they did not orchestrate their action to cause massive disruption to people who get paid considerable less than the average train crew
Be hard to notice the difference anyway as they are cancelled for one reason or another lol
Who would even notice? These trains barely ever run anyway.
Surely they need to go to work before they can go on strike?
Would we notice? Better to get the bus. Never use it now as its too unreliable