Planned strikes by train drivers on London’s Elizabeth line on Thursday and Saturday have been called off after a new pay offer.
Members of Aslef had planned to stage a series of strikes that would have caused travel disruption in the capital.
The union said its executive would consider a revised offer from the line’s operator, MTR, on Wednesday.
Strikes planned for Thursday and Saturday have been suspended, but no announcement has been made about further stoppages on 8 and 10 March.
Virtually all drivers on the line are in the union and had voted overwhelmingly for industrial action. Aslef blames MTR for the dispute.
The operator, which will be succeeded by Tokyo Metro and Go-Ahead in May, had offered drivers a 4.5% pay increase, in line with other pay deals agreed by train drivers.
The Elizabeth line is the cross-London mass transit line, which opened in May 2022, and carries about 800,000 passengers a day.
Industrial unrest has persisted in some places on the rail network despite the resolution last summer of the major nationwide disputes that had brought two years of disruption. Threatened strikes on the London Underground network in November were called off after a pay deal was reached.
The RMT union has been staging regular strikes by train managers on Avanti West Coast intercity services on most Sundays, action that is scheduled to last until the end of May. The most recent three weeks of strikes , however, were called off earlier this month to allow for “intensive negotiations” in a dispute over rest-day working.
