London Tube strikes live: Major walkout begins after last-ditch talks fail to resolve dispute

Here are the London underground lines not part of the strike:

• Bakerloo
• District
• Elizabeth
• Hammersmith and City
• Jubilee
• Northern
• Victoria
• Waterloo & City

The Elizabeth Line will be running a special service on Tuesday and Wednesday this week on top of Tube strikes.

After 10pm each evening, a reduced service operates between Paddington and Heathrow Terminal 4 / Maidenhead. Two trains an hour will serve Heathrow Terminal 4, West Drayton, Langley, Slough, Burnham and Maidenhead.

Four trains an hour will serve Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3.

Six trains an hour will serve Ealing Broadway, Southall and Hayes & Harlington. After 11pm, trains will not call at Acton Main Line, West Ealing and Hanwell.

Buses, DLR, Elizabeth line, London Overground and trams will be running as normal but are expected to be busy as strikes affect the Metropolitan, Central, Circle and Piccadilly lines.

As Tube strikes are set to take place across the capital on Tuesday and Thursday, many cafes and restaurants won’t see their usual number of customers.

When strikes took place in April, restaurateurs and cafe owners told The Independent how the were feeling the pinch.

RMT and TfL spoke for five hours with Acas acting as a concilation service on Monday

Services are set to be disrupted as talks between both sides failed.

During the strike action, no service is expected on the Circle line, Piccadilly line, the Metropolitan line between Baker Street and Aldgate, and the Central line between White City and Liverpool Street.

Service is expected across all other Tube lines on both days. However, there will be disruption to journeys and service levels will vary across the London Underground network.

On both days, there will be limited service before 6.30am and customers should complete their journeys by 9pm.

Service is expected to return to normal on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week.

A TfL spokesperson said: “It is bitterly disappointing that despite five hours of meetings with the RMT at Acas and repeated assurances that the four-day working week proposals will remain voluntary, RMT has chosen to continue with its disruptive strike action.

“We will do all we can to provide as much service as possible during this action.”