TfL Tube strike – reside: Disruption to proceed throughout London till mid-morning on Wednesday

Footfall in central London on the primary day of the rail strikes is 27 per cent down in comparison with final Tuesday.

Retailers say the economic motion is a “blow” to their income on prime of rising prices and workers shortages.

Footfall in metropolis centres exterior of London was additionally down – by 11.2 per cent – in accordance with retail analysts Springboard.

Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, stated: “The impact of train and tube strikes today on footfall is very clear to see, with a large proportion of people clearly working from home.”

The Elizabeth line is reporting extreme delays.

According to TfL, there are extreme delays between Hayes & Harlington and Reading; as a result of an earlier buyer incident, trains won’t cease at Slough.

Local buses are accepting tickets between Hayes & Harlington and Reading.

A lowered service is working between Paddington and Hayes & Harlington / Heathrow airport and between Liverpool Street and Shenfield as a result of strike motion.

However, a superb service is reported between Abbey Wood and Paddington.

Today’s Tube strikes have put immense stress on London’s bus community, as 1000’s of individuals try to make important journeys and get to work with virtually no TfL prepare providers readily available.

Twitter person David posted a video of 1 indignant commuter shouting at bus drivers in Dulwich, southeast London, begging the motive force to let him on the packed car.

The man might be heard shouting “It’s not your bus! It’s not your bus!” whereas standing in entrance of it to stop it driving away.

The commuter who posted it wrote: “Since 6:30am waiting for a bus but the buses still passing without stopping… And my patients and coworkers still waiting for me because of the #RailStrikes.“

The city route-planning app CityMapper has released an emoji-based chart showing which London train and Tube lines are expected to run on certain days of this week.

It shows a green happy face for all of Monday, when trains ran as scheduled, but stress-sweating and angry red emojis for Tuesday’s practically non-existent services.

Divided into Rail, Overground, Tube and Elizabeth line portions, it’s not a failsafe cheat sheet, but the effort was appreciated by users of the app.

Twitter user Darcey praised the quick-read chart, saying: “The CityMapper emoji-themed status tracker for the tube/train strikes this week is a work of art.”

Transport for London (TfL)’s present updates present that there are a only a few trains operating on Central, District, Northern and London Overground traces, all described as “part suspended”.

On the District, there are trains operating between West Ham and Upminster roughly each quarter-hour however no service on the remainder of the road.

On the Central, trains are working between White City and West Ruislip / Ealing Broadway (roughly each 20 minutes); between Liverpool Street and Epping / Hainault (roughly each 10 minutes); and between Woodford and Hainault (through Grange Hill) roughly each 20 minutes. But there is no such thing as a service on the remainder of the road.

On the Overground, there’s no service between Romford and Upminster, Sydenham and Crystal Palace and between Surrey Quays and New Cross. There are additionally extreme delays between Highbury & Islington and Clapham Junction / West Croydon.

On the Northern line, some trains are working between East Finchley and High Barnet/Mill Hill East and between Golders Green and Edgware, with a service roughly each 8 minutes. There is not any service on the remainder of the road.

In addition, the recently-opened Elizabeth line (which is affected by wider UK-wide rail employee strikes all week) is working with solely “minor delays” and “a good service between Abbey Wood and Paddington”.

“I love these Tube strike days,” stated – nearly – no-one.

Londoner Alastair Hilton documented his sunny bicycle commute to work alongside the Thames, posting a chipper video of his commentary because the leafy north financial institution and Battersea Power Station got here into view.

Mr Hilton whizzed previous a row of vehicles sitting stationary in site visitors as he trilled in regards to the view, including “Hope you’re all having a lovely time in your cars”.

London has seen shiny, sunny climate and highs of 24C amid the Tube strikes, which have put all however a only a few London Underground and Overground journeys off-limits.

The variety of Tube journeys made throughout London plummeted by 95 per cent this morning, following the walkouts by 10,000 London Underground workers.

It is the fourth Tube strike to this point in 2022, with the newest having taken place over 24 hours on 6 June.

Previous strikes throughout Transport for London (TFL)’s community occurred on 1 and three March.

One annoyed Australian holidaymaker within the capital advised the BBC: “As tourists we can’t really go anywhere other than where we can walk to.

“When you’re a tourist you’ve only got a certain amount of time to be in London.”

Meanwhile, historian Tim Dunn popped right into a abandoned London Bridge station to search out it “almost entirely bereft of passengers” on the primary day of the UK-wide rail strikes – however with “a few services operating on the edges”.

The RMT Union chief Mick Lynch has spoken out about London mayor Sadiq Khan’s half in immediately’s prepare strikes, saying: “I think he’s got sympathy for workers, I don’t think he wants to dilute the system, I don’t think he wants to instinctively attack our workers”.

Speaking to the Evening Standard’s Ross Lydall, he continued: “But in order to get a deal, what he’s done is to put our member’s terms and conditions and pensions on the altar as something to be cut.

“We wish he hadn’t done that, but we do support the idea that you get a fully-funded London Underground – it’s vital to the city and vital to the environment that we have a properly funded network.

“But we also need the national rail network feeding into that.”

He referred to as the federal government’s cuts to rail and Underground funding “not sustainable” and stated options have been wanted.

In an announcement in regards to the strikes, TfL stated: “TfL services and national rail will be affected by strikes from Tue 21 to Sun 26 June.”

This takes into consideration not simply the London Underground stroll out (from midnight on 21 June till midnight on 22 June), however wider disruption attributable to UK-wide rail strikes as 40,000 rail staff take part in industrial motion on 21, 23 and 25 June.

This signifies that most journeys throughout Tuesday 21 June on the TfL community will probably be off-limits, but additionally covers TfL’s again for the opposite six days of the week, when RMT members of workers could also be on strike.

Read our full information to the dates and occasions of the strike:

Due to the economic motion, Eurostar has stated it’s operating a lowered timetable between 21 and 25 June.

If you may have a ticket for journey on 22 or 24 June and your prepare will not be listed as cancelled or retimed, it means it’s scheduled to run as regular. A few trains will probably be departing later than common, and some extra trains will probably be operating over the strike days.

If you’d somewhat postpone your journey to keep away from travelling through the strike interval, you may trade your reserving free of charge for journey at a unique date/time.

Read our full information to which Eurostar providers are cancelled right here: