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Tube strikes June 2026: Full record of dates and affected TfL routes

The strikes are set to trigger chaos throughout the capital this week.

Tube drivers have deliberate strikes this week (Picture: Getty)

London tube drivers have deliberate intensive strikes this week, impacting most traces on Tuesday and Thursday. In the course of the motion, no service is anticipated on the Circle line, the Piccadilly line, the Metropolitan line between Baker Avenue and Aldgate, and the Central line between White Metropolis and Liverpool Avenue.

The walkout will run from midnight till midnight on Tuesday, June 2, and Thursday, June 4, with regular service resuming on Wednesday and Friday. Transport for London (TfL) expects to run providers on different Tube traces on each days, however they’re prone to be busy and TFL warned “there might be disruption to journeys”.

On the traces which can be operating, providers will begin late and end early, with restricted providers earlier than 6.30am on each days and clients have been informed to finish their journeys earlier than 9pm on each Tuesday and Thursday.

The Elizabeth line, DLR, London Overground, buses and trams will proceed to function through the strike days, however these are anticipated to be busy as passengers are funnelled into the restricted variety of routes.

The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union organised the commercial motion, alleging that TfL was attempting to pressure drivers right into a four-day working week as an alternative of 5.

Nevertheless, TfL Chief Working Officer Claire Mann rejected this, stating the brand new schedule can be “voluntary” and “there can be no discount in contractual hours and those that want to proceed a five-day working week sample would give you the option to take action”.

The four-day work week would see members working longer, extra condensed hours, which the union stated is a security danger as a consequence of driver fatigue.

Nevertheless, ASLEF, a practice driver’s union, has accepted the voluntary proposals. It stated this was “precisely the kind of deal each commerce union needs to be attempting to realize”, stating it will give their members 35 extra days off every year “in return for some pretty minor modifications to working circumstances”.

Earlier industrial motion on the London Underground deliberate for Might 19 and 21 was known as off on the final minute by the RMT, and it’s but to be seen whether or not RMT will achieve this once more.

The day earlier than the Might strikes have been as a consequence of begin, the RMT stated “on the eleventh hour the employer has shifted its place permitting us to additional discover our members issues across the imposition of latest rosters, fatigue and questions of safety”.

Tube strike dates

  • Tuesday June 2 from 12:01am to 23:59
  • Thursday June 4 from 12:01am to 23:59

Tube traces with no service

  • Circle line
  • Piccadilly line
  • Metropolitan line between Baker Avenue and Aldgate
  • Central line between White Metropolis and Liverpool Avenue

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