Travel Alert: Industrial Action impacts for Sydney Trains city and ...

Sydney Trains met with the Rail, Tram, and Bus Union (RTBU) for a second time at 5:30pm last night, and the union has agreed to run a regular train service on Thursday, including the planned 86 additional special event services to Olympic Park for the Pearl Jam concert.

At this stage the RTBU has not agreed to lift their industrial action they have planned for Friday through to Sunday, which means the notified bans in place by the union will bring the heavy rail network to a shutdown on Friday, Saturday, and through until Sunday morning this weekend.

Sydney Trains and NSW Trains remain committed to finding a resolution for our workforce this side of Christmas.

Passengers are also advised that from today, 20 November 2024, there will be service reductions and cancelled services on the Sydney Trains Intercity Network due to Protected Industrial Action.

This will impact passengers including those travelling to and from Newcastle, the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands, and the Illawarra. 

This impact is due to cumulative Industrial Action, but primarily the ban restricting the number of kilometres train crew can work per day. 

Some limited emergency bussing is being organised for wherever possible, however numbers will be extremely limited.