Train drivers at 12 companies set to strike for two days next month

Britain’s rail networks will probably be plunged into chaos when drivers stroll out over two days (Image: PA )

Prepare drivers at 12 operators have agreed to go on strike subsequent month, in accordance with the PA information company.

Britain’s rail community is predicted to be dropped at its knees by the motion, deliberate for October 1 and 5.

Drivers are planning to stroll out over a long-running pay dispute, which has seen main strikes throughout the nation by drivers and different rail employees this summer season.

The motion is believed to be the identical as one deliberate for this week till unions agreed to cancel it out of consideration for individuals mourning the Queen.

The Aslef union beforehand coordinated strikes in July and August which pressured most main intercity routes to shut or function skeleton providers.

A 24-hour walkout on September 15 was set to be probably the most disruptive but, forcing the stoppage of the principle intercity routes from London to the Midlands, northern England, Scotland and Wales.

Operators of commuter providers round England in addition to the London Overground had additionally signed up.

There isn't a indication that drivers at these rail corporations have needed to publish new ballots, that means October’s motion is prone to be just like the one deliberate by unions for September.

The affected corporations are understood to be Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, Larger Anglia, Nice Western Railway, Hull Trains, LNER, London Overground, Northern Trains, Southeastern, TransPennine Expres and West Midlands Trains.

October’s motion is prone to be extra disruptive than strikes in August which introduced main rail traces to a standstill (Image: PA)

Particulars is not going to be confirmed till subsequent week as Aslef have imposed a moratorium on all press or public communications till after Elizabeth II’s funeral.

Its basic secretary Mick Whelan beforehand accused prepare corporations of pushing drivers to take a ‘actual phrases pay reduce – to work simply as laborious this 12 months as final, however for 10% much less’.

The subsequent rail strike at present within the calendar is a 24-hour walkout by members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Affiliation union (TSSA) on September 26.

The motion will begin at noon, that means providers on September 27 may also be closely disrupted.

It can embody employees from 9 rail operators in addition to Community Rail, rising the probability that some traces should be utterly shut down.