Second tube strike to go ahead on Sunday 3rd October

The second of a series of tube strikes over plans to cut 800 ticket office staff will take place from 7pm on Sunday October 3rd until 7pm on Monday October 4th.

Services are unlikely to return to normal until Tuesday October 5th.

Use Tfl's Journey Planner to find an alternate route.

Sharon Grant, chair of passenger group London TravelWatch, commented: "There is no justification for closing ticket offices where there is still obvious demand...We also need guarantees that there will always be staff available to help and provide information to passengers when necessary. This is what passengers expect – and deserve."

More on the tube strikes.

Tube maintenance workers to strike on Monday 4th October:

A 24 hour strike by Tube maintenance workers at depots on the Jubilee and Northern lines will also begin at 7pm on Monday October 4th.

People who normally use the two lines are advised to try and find alternate routes.

Further action, also timed to follow network-wide Tube strikes, is scheduled for the same time on Wednesday November 3, and Monday November 29.

The workers are employed by Alstom.

Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union leader Bob Crow said: "Alstom is a major trans-national company that has been making record profits and is happy to shovel dividends to its shareholders, but has offered what would amount to a substantial pay cut to our members.

A spokeswoman for Alstom told Reuters that the 2 percent pay increase it had proposed was fair and reasonable and the company had put contingency measures in place to minimise disruption for passengers during the strike.

"The deal on offer is worth less than half of those won by other Tube workers this year, and the massive vote for action, and the solid support for the first strike and the overtime ban, should tell Alstom all they need to know about our members’ determination to win a fair pay deal."