COMMUTERS across the nation will face travel chaos today because of strikes.
Train services will grind to a halt again on Tuesday as Brits face nationwide strike action across the rail network.
The heavy overnight snowfall on Sunday night caused significant disruption to motorways, cancelled flights, and led schools to shut their doors across the nation.
The Met Office issued yellow weather warnings of ice, fog and snow for much of the UK, with some regions seeing persistent wintery weather throughout the day.
And there will be more to come as forecasters predict temperatures could plummet to -10C in the coming days – and widespread strike action will cause chaos.
Here is how train services are expected to be affected by strike action today.
The strike on Tuesday is a national strike, meaning there will be very limited services running on the train network nationwide.
TfL have warned there will be disruption on parts of the District and Bakerloo lines.
There will also be disruption on the London Overground and Elizabeth line.
The RMT union has announced strike action on Tuesday, with the TSSA union also striking on Avanti West Coast.
Customers should expect trains services to be cut significantly – and services that do run are set to be extremely busy.
Avanti West Coast's revised timetables for December 13 to 16 are available to search in online journey planners.
Crosscountry said there will be disruption from today until January 7.
A statement said: "Due to industrial action planned by the RMT Union there will be travel disruption across the railway, service availability up to Saturday, December 17 can be found below.
"We are currently assessing the service we will be able to provide for the period of industrial action planned in later December and early January, please continue to check this page for information.
"Significantly reduced services, please check your entire journey before travelling and if you're travelling on other train operator's services, visit their websites for further information."
Ticket sales for strike dates – including today – have been suspended.
East Midlands Railway said its services will run between 7.30am and 6.30pm only on strike days.
Services will finish earlier than usual with the last departures starting between 3pm and 4.30pm.
Gatwick Express has warned customers to only travel if absolutely necessary and to expect severe disruption on its services.
"The railway will operate limited opening hours with services starting later than normal and finishing in the late afternoon," a statement said.
"Some stations will not be served on strike days. Please check your first and last trains carefully, as there will be no alternative travel outside of these services."
Great Northern has also warned commuters to expect severe disruption on its service throughout the day.
Trains will only run after 7am and will finish in the late afternoon.
Greater Anglia said its services will be severely reduced and disrupted on Tuesday.
Trains will run from 7.30am and all last trains will complete their journey by 6.30pm.
There will be a reduced service of one train per hour between Norwich, Colchester and Cambridge and Liverpool Street.
There will also be a reduced service of two trains per hour between Southend Victoria and Liverpool Street and on the Stansted Express.
"Avoid travelling with us. It's likely that most routes won't have trains or bus replacements for them," the train operator said.
LNER customers have been told to expect disruption as it will be running a reduced timetable on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, services will be in operation on the following lines only, between 7am and 7pm:
West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services will not operate on any other route on these days.
ScotRail has warned customers to expect significant disruption today.
Although the strike action does not involve ScotRail staff, it will have a major impact on the train operator’s ability to provide services as the RMT planned action involves Network Rail staff in Scotland.
The train operator will run services on 12 routes across the central belt, Fife, and the Borders between the hours of 7.30am and 6.30pm
ScotRail has warned customers that the final services will depart well before 6.30pm, so customers should plan ahead.
South Western Railway has told customers to only travel if absolutely necessary.
The train operator said: "On these strike days, a severely reduced timetable will run on some routes 7.30am to 6.30pm only, with the rest of the network closed entirely.
"Due to the knock on effect of strike days, first trains will be much later than usual and be very busy on Thursday 15 and Sunday 18 December – avoid these first trains if you can.
"Please only travel if absolutely necessary throughout this strike period."
Southeastern said there will be a limited service running on the network and some routes will be closed.
"The national advice is please only travel if absolutely necessary. If you have to travel, plan ahead and check your first and last trains across all train operators," it said.
Like other train operators, Southern and Thameslink have told customers to only travel if necessary and to expect severe disruption across the network.
Trains will only run after 7am and will finish late in the afternoon.
Check here for a rundown of the limited services running between London and Brighton, Gatwick Airport, Bedford, Luton, Cambridge, Ely, Peterborough, Stevenage, and Welwyn Garden City.
Transpennine Express will be operating services in both directions between York and Manchester Piccadilly, Cleethorpes and Sheffield, and Preston and Manchester Airport.
"While a very limited service will be running on some lines, we are advising customers to only travel during the strike action if journeys are essential," the train operator said.
Transport for Wales is not involved in the industrial action.
But strikes mean it will be unable to operate rail services on Network Rail infrastructure.
Check here for the amended timetable.
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