What happens if you’ve tickets booked on a train strike day?

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Haven’t heard anything from the company and need to make a decision about what to do about our city break to London… strike is on our return day. So we could come home a day early and lose out on a nights hotel (whole hotel stay could be rebooked but not individual days)… but I don’t know if there are other options or if they put on some trains etc or a bus service ? Stupid bloody train drivers.

There might be some trains but they don’t tend to announce this until about a week beforehand. No bus replacement services so you basically have to find alternative means of getting home, or change your travel dates as tickets will usually be valid for a couple of days either side of the strike day. It’s absolutely shite if you’ve got plans and could be out of pocket and yes, I know that’s kind of the point of the strike but those of us planning a nice weekend away once in a while aren’t the ones determining someone’s salary!

Urghhhh it’s such a bloody hassle. And yes I know that’s the point of strikes, hard to feel sorry for people who have been offered £65 grand for a favour day working week though… when we’ve been looking forward to a festive break after a shitty year. And as a nurse it is really hard to get AL as it is… so don’t even know if we could reschedule any time soon. Feel like crying tbh.

I hear ya!

Come home by coach? That’s what I’m going to do.

It happened to me and DD earlier in the year. Luckily it was a driveable distance but I didn’t want to drive it, it was meant to be a break!

This happened to me in May. I went down a day earlier but that was a drama as train was delayed and had to change etc so got the trip for free in the end as it qualified for a refund!

Will go look at that- though I hate coaches… 🤢

Can you drive to outskirts of London park and get tube?

Where are you travelling from? Driving to nearest tube is often a good option.

Scotland 🤦🏻‍♀️

Could you fly instead? Or slide your dates?

I was due to travel on a strike day earlier in the year but my train wasn't showing as cancelled, train operator told me it would still be running as part of their skeleton service so I still took my trip. Lo and behold, I couldn't get home as the train ended up cancelled after all with absolutely no alternative service. When the train operator rang me to rearrange my trip (I had passenger assist booked) and I explained the situation of either having to come home early or come home a day late and just stay in the train station overnight (hotel was fully booked), they advised me to get a taxi home with a receipt and they'd reimburse me. They even emailed me confirmation that they would do this so I did and they did reimburse me. Longest taxi ride of my life and the most expensive but I thought it was really good service on the train company's part.

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