East Midlands Trains users told to make alternative arrangements as fresh strike action shuts services

Passengers are being warned that all East Midlands Trains services are being cancelled on Wednesday, October 5, due to strike action and there will be no services east of Nottingham for the next four days.

Members of the drivers’ union Aslef, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), RMT and Unite are walking out across the country in their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said strikes would continue until the Government intervened – and urged Transport Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan to “lift the shackles” from train companies to make a pay offer to workers.

He said: “The message I am receiving from my members is that they are in this for the long haul and if anything they want industrial action to be increased.”

As well as Wednesday’s action by drivers, passengers who want to travel from Nottingham to Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire should make other plans from Wednesday up to and including Saturday.