Newcastle United supporters’ travel arrangements for Brighton & Hove Albion and Brentford have potentially been derailed.

It has been confirmed that there are no trains in or out of London on the weekend of November 28, with Newcastle facing Brighton at the Amex on the Sunday (2:05pm kick-off). While Underground strikes are in place for the match at Brentford on December 19.

Newcastle fans travelling to Brighton by train are required to change in London but will now have to find an alternative mode of transport. A replacement coach service will be in place between Peterborough and London over the weekend. Trains from London Victoria to Brighton are still running, but with rail replacement bus services in place at certain times.

Another potential blow for travelling Newcastle fans was confirmed when RMT, the rail union, announced eight days of strike action by London Underground train drivers due to ‘a dispute over plans to impose new working arrangements that would undermine existing agreements and worsen working conditions’.

A statement from the union read: “The union will launch a series of rolling 24-hour strikes beginning on November 26, in opposition to management's plans to introduce a so-called voluntary four-day working week alongside a new Trains Modernisation Framework.”

Strikes will begin from noon and will impact November 26, December 17, December 19, January 4, January 6, February 17, February 23 and February 25.

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Travelling Newcastle fans were set to be majorly impacted by the strike on December 19, but may have been partially rescued by the TNT Sports broadcasting schedule. The match against Brentford on the same day has been selected for live broadcast, bringing its kick-off time forward to 12:30pm as opposed to 3pm.

As such, Newcastle fans should be able to make their way across London and to the Gtech Community Stadium before the strike starts at noon on the same day. However, getting back across London to make any potential trains or onward journeys will be an issue with no Underground service in place.

As things stand, no other London trips for Newcastle are set to be impacted by the tube strikes.