Portsmouth train travel: No services to London Waterloo from Portsmouth Harbour as ASELF strikes blight passengers

South Western Railway (SWR) announced last week that an “extremely limited service” and timetable would be operating. The ASLEF union, which represents train drivers, have already been taking part in strikes – from December 1 – and will continue to December 9.

Tomorrow, SWR drivers are taking strike action and means that Portsmouth passengers will have to find alternative modes of transport. Trains will only be running London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Feltham, Woking, Guildford and between Basingstoke and Salisbury. Services will be operating between 7am and 7pm.

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No other services on the network will be used. SWR chief operating officer, Stuart Meek, said: “We’re sorry that national industrial action will again impact SWR services for the first nine days of December. ASLEF will take strike action on Wednesday 6 December, meaning we will run an extremely limited service, and we must urge our customers to only travel if absolutely necessary on that day.

"During other days of industrial action, customers should check their entire journeys before setting off, as there will be some cancellations and drivers at other operators may be on strike. We know that this is a busy time of year as we approach Christmas, so we would like to thank customers for their continued patience and understanding.” ASLEF has also told its members not to work overtime.

General secretary, Mick Whelan, said: “We are going on strike again not to inconvenience passengers, but to express our disgust at the intransigence of this government, and the bad faith shown by the private companies which employ us.”