South Western Railway has confirmed that strike action will take place tomorrow.

The ASLEF Union strike means that the majority of the network will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 4 October.

Trains will only run between London Waterloo and Basingstoke, Feltham, Woking, Guildford via Woking and between Basingstoke and Salisbury.

Train services will only run between the hours of 7am and 7pm and there will be no other services outside of these times.

There will be no service on the Island Line and customers in areas such as Bournemouth, Exeter, Portsmouth, Reading, Southampton, Staines, Windsor and Yeovil will not be served by SWR services.

Following similar strike action on Saturday 30 September, there is an overtime ban today, meaning that a normal weekday timetable will operate with a small number of cancellations

The overtime ban will continue on Thursday and Friday,

Strike day map. (Photo Credit: SWR).

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Stuart Meek, South Western Railway's chief operating officer, said: "I'm sorry to say that, due to industrial and strike action by the ASLEF union over the next two weeks, we will be forced to make changes to our timetables.

"We will run an extremely limited service on both Saturday 30 September and Wednesday 4 October and our advice to customers is to only travel if their journeys are absolutely necessary.

"While we will run as many services as possible on days subject to overtime bans, our advice to customers is to check before travelling."

He added: "On all seven dates of industrial action customers should check their entire journey before they travel as other operators will be affected. We're very sorry for the disruption that this will cause and we're very grateful to our customers for their continued patience."

Journey planners should now be up to date and customers are urged to check before they travel and to only travel if absolutely necessary.