{"id":38248,"date":"2023-12-01T11:04:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/?p=38248"},"modified":"2023-12-01T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:18:06","slug":"southwest-travellers-to-be-affected-by-rail-strikes-between-1st-9th-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/2023\/12\/01\/southwest-travellers-to-be-affected-by-rail-strikes-between-1st-9th-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest travellers to be affected by rail strikes this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People in Bristol are to be affected by upcoming strikes, with travellers being told to plan ahead this coming week, due to national rail strikes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dates for this disruption will be from Saturday 2 December to Friday 8 December.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Likely to happen will be an \u201covertime ban\u201d happening Friday the 1st of December and Saturday the 9th of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Workers on GWR will be striking as the Aslef union announced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f Important Travel Information &#8211; Sunday 3 December\u26a0\ufe0f <br><br>Due to industrial action, NO trains will run on long-distance services between London Paddington and Bristol, South Wales and Devon and Cornwall on Sunday 3 December<br><br>Customers are advised to travel before the weekend or\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FvqooYxI4s\">pic.twitter.com\/FvqooYxI4s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; GWR (@GWRHelp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GWRHelp\/status\/1730121328034738543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GWR said: \u201cThere could be further disruption from Friday 1 to Saturday 9 December, due to industrial action short of a strike which is likely to cause some short-notice alterations and cancellations, especially at weekends or late at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also affected will be CrossCountry rail services on the 7th of December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re aware the ASLEF union have announced industrial action at CrossCountry on 7 Dec &amp; action short of a strike between 1-9 Dec. We\u2019re assessing the impact to our service &amp; will provide an update soon. Our website will be updated when we have more info <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3CedTjSWLT\">https:\/\/t.co\/3CedTjSWLT<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrossCountry Trains (@CrossCountryUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrossCountryUK\/status\/1725219498196603198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CrossCountry, who are also striking from Saturday 2nd of December to Friday 8th of December have stated: \u201cWe have temporarily suspended the sale of Advanced fares for CrossCountry services on strike days until the timetable for the strike days have been finalised.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CrossCountry have also reassured its passengers that, \u201ccustomers affected by industrial action between 2-8 December, are reminded that tickets within these dates will be valid for travel from 1-12 December\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Bristol are to be affected by upcoming strikes, with travellers being told to plan ahead this coming week, due to national rail strikes.&nbsp; The dates for this disruption will be from Saturday 2 December to Friday 8 December.&nbsp; Likely to happen will be an \u201covertime ban\u201d happening Friday the 1st of December and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":38251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38269,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248\/revisions\/38269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uwejournalism.net\/bowernews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}