Chiltern Railways reminds customers to only travel if absolutely essential over week affected by RMT strike
After the first day of strike action by the RMT, train operator Chiltern Railways has reminded customers of their guidance to only travel if absolutely essential across the week. This guidance is in effect between 21 and 25 June inclusive, including on non-strike days.
On further strike days (23 and 25 June), there will be extremely limited availability of staff and as such we will not be able to operate services on most routes.
It is important to remind customers that this travel guidance is also in force for non-strike days (22 and 24 June). .
We expect to have significantly less staff to service and prepare the number of trains we would normally need to operate the timetable. Coupled with the fact we are unable to position our fleet how we normally would, this means that we will have to operate a heavily reduced timetable on non-strike days during the week. Services will start later and finish earlier than usual, and there will be no services north of Banbury or to Oxford.
Chiltern Railways strongly advises customers to consider their journey and seek alternative methods of transport, but in cases where rail travel is a necessity, to check before they travel on the Chiltern Railways website (www.chilternrailways.co.uk) or app.
More information and FAQs can be found on www.chilternrailways.co.uk/strike.
Wednesday 22 June, Friday 24 June (non-strike days, services still affected)
- Service starts at 07:30AM
- Last trains from Marylebone:
21:10 to Banbury
22:10 to Bicester North
22:45 to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via High Wycombe - 2 trains per hour from London:
1 train to Banbury/Bicester North
1 train to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via High Wycombe - 1 train per hour between Amersham and Aylesbury
Thursday 23 June and Saturday 25 June (strike days)
- Service starts at 07:30AM
- Last trains from Marylebone:
15:10 to Banbury
16:10 to Bicester North
16:45 to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via High Wycombe - 2 trains per hour from London:
1 train to Banbury/Bicester North
1 train to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via High Wycombe - 1 train per hour between Amersham and Aylesbury
Contact Information
Matt Turner
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About Chiltern
- Chiltern Railways is part of the Arriva group, one of the leading providers of passenger transport in Europe, employing 53,000 people and delivering 2 billion passenger journeys a year across 14 European countries. Arriva are part of Deutsche Bahn (DB), one of the world’s leading passenger and logistics companies, responsible for DB's passenger transport services outside Germany.
- Chiltern operates commuter/regional rail passenger services from its Central London terminus at London Marylebone along the M40 corridor to destinations in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, as well as long-distance services to the West Midlands along two routes. Services on the Chiltern Main Line run from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford, with some peak-hour services to Kidderminster.
- Chiltern also runs trains on the London to Aylesbury Line to Aylesbury (with some trains terminating at Aylesbury Vale Parkway instead), on the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury and Oxford to Bicester branch lines