Enough non-RMT staff are working to ensure some trains are running on the network with a second Tube line running part of its route
09:52, 09 Sep 2025Updated 11:37, 10 Sep 2025
Commuters are facing severe disruption this week due to the Tube strikes(Image: CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images)
UPDATE – the latest on the Tube lines running during day three (Wednesday, September 10) of the strikes can be read here.
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed one Tube line will run entirely today (Tuesday, September 9) with a second running part of its usual route. Bosses say enough non-RMT staff have turned up for work despite the ongoing Tube strikes meaning it can operate the Northern line in full. In addition to this on the London Underground network, the Piccadilly line is partly running on the section between Rayners Lane and Hammersmith.
Previously, TfL said it expected all 11 lines to be suspended due to the stand-off with the union over pay and working hours. A TfL spokesperson said: “The Northern line is able to run today as there have been enough non-RMT staff to do so. It will be a day-to-day situation with the network, it will depend what we are able to operate based on who is at work, so it would not be accurate to say this will happen on any other day. We will continue putting as much of the network into use as we possibly can based on the number of staff that are at work.”
Transport expert Simon Calder said trains are running at 10 minute intervals across the whole line, although some Central London stations may be skipped. Tuesday (September 9) marks the point where strikes have intensified with the DLR also being out of action due to a separate dispute. Commutes were also made more difficult due to severe delays on both the Elizabeth and Mildmay lines due to track faults.
Commuters faced long queues for buses around London on Monday (September 8) of the Tube strike(Image: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire)
The strikes, which came into force fully on Monday, have seen buses get busier and a surge of people hiring bikes to get around London. The RMT has rejected a 3.4 per cent pay rise offer, and is instead campaigning for working hours for Tube drivers to be cut from 35 to 32.
Campaigners cite exhaustion and unsociable shift patterns – such as starting at 4am or finishing at 1am – as the key reason for this. TfL has criticised these requests as ” completely unaffordable”. Downing Street has called on the RMT and Transport for London (TfL) to get back to the negotiating table to end the strike.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “I think Londoners will rightly be fed-up with the disruption from Tube strikes ….. as parents try and drop their kids off at school, get to hospital appointments, get to work.
“We want to see RMT and TfL get back around the table when it comes to these strikes, work together in good faith to resolve this situation in the interests of passengers.”
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