Rail strikes: ‘Extremely limited train services’ running as three-days of industrial action planned

If you intend to travel where trains are running, please check before you travel. Trains that are operating will be busier than usual because we will not be able to offer the normal service frequency. Other train operators are also affected by this action, so onward travel could also be affected.

Where we are able to run services, they are expected to be extremely busy and we are not able to provide bus replacement services.

Customers who have already purchased tickets for strike days can claim a full refund or amend their ticket; those who travel and are delayed may be entitled to Delay Repay compensation if they are delayed by 15 minutes or more.

To help customers, tickets will be valid for travel on alternative days on GWR services as follows:

Tickets for Wednesday 31 May can be used on the day before the date on the ticket or up to and including Monday 5 June
Tickets for Friday 2 June can be used on the day before the date on the ticket or up to and including Tuesday 6 June
Tickets for Saturday 3 June can be used on Thursday 1 June or up to and including Tuesday 6 June

If the ticket is for a journey that includes the London Underground it will not be valid on London Underground services on an alternative date.

Season-ticket holders can apply for compensation through the Delay Repay scheme.

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Wednesday, May 31

An extremely limited service will operate. There will be a reduced operating window; services will start at 07:30 and must be completed by around 18:30. If you intend to travel where trains are operating, please do check both outward and return journeys.

A very limited service will run only on the following routes between:

London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads
Reading and Didcot (with replacement bus services operating between Didcot and Oxford)
Reading and Basingstoke
Reading and Redhill (peak time only)
Reading and Newbury (peak time only)
Westbury and Swindon (peak time only)
Cardiff and Bristol (two-hourly)
Exeter and Barnstaple (peak time only)
Plymouth and Gunnislake
Penzance and St Ives

If you intend to travel on these routes, please check before you travel. Trains that are operating will be busier than usual because we will not be able to offer the normal service frequency.

The Night Riviera Sleeper service will not operate.

Friday, June 2

A very limited service will run only on the following routes between:

London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads
London Paddington and Didcot
London Paddington and Cardiff
London Paddington and Plymouth (calling Pewsey, Westbury, Castle Cary)
Gloucester and Swindon
London Paddington and Bedwyn
Greenford and West Ealing
Slough and Windsor
Maidenhead and Bourne End
Twyford and Slough
Reading and Basingstoke
Oxford and Banbury
Reading and Redhill
Oxford and Didcot (replacement bus service)
Cardiff and Westbury
Bristol Temple Meads and Plymouth

If you intend to travel on these routes, please check before you travel. Trains that are operating will be busier than usual because we will not be able to offer the normal service frequency.

The Night Riviera Sleeper service will not operate.

Saturday, June 3

A very limited service will run only on the following routes between:

London Paddington and Bristol
Reading and Didcot (with replacement bus services operating between Didcot and Oxford)
Reading and Basingstoke
Reading and Redhill (peak time only)
Reading and Newbury (peak time only)
Westbury and Swindon (peak time only)
Cardiff and Bristol (two-hourly)
Exeter and Barnstaple
Plymouth and Gunnislake
Penzance and St Ives

If you intend to travel on these routes, please check before you travel. Trains that are operating will be busier than usual because we will not be able to offer the normal service frequency.