causton
Established Member
This is a replacement train service being run instead of the franchised operator while employees of the franchised operator are on strike. That is the key point for me. They are running a duplicate service.
But it is not being run because of the strike, the services would have run whether there was a strike or not as Northern have decided not to run any train services along that line at all, strike or no strike.
If they cancelled Thameslink services to Rainham due to the current situation, for example, and got Southeastern to run a replacement service, then a few weeks later Thameslink drivers went on strike, would SE be strike breaking? Where do you draw the line?