Tube Strike January 2016: Users won't find out whether walkout will happen until the last minute

Millions of Tube users will be left waiting until the last moment to find out whether there will be a full train service next week.

The RMT - the largest of the Tube unions - will not decide until Monday whether to go ahead with a 24 hour strike currently set to start on Tuesday evening.

The delay forced London Underground (LU) to start planning what sort of emergency service it may be able to run should the strike go ahead.

Travel advice and updates for passengers will be issued by LU “as soon as possible.”

Oher major unions - Aslef, TSSA and Unite - have already confirmed they are suspending the strikes after receiving an improved offer in the long running dispute over the Night Tube, annual pay and working conditions.

RMT members include mostly station staff but also train drivers, engineers and signallers.

Mick Cash, the RMT leader, said a mass meeting of union representatives would take place on Monday followed by a meeting of the controlling executive committee which would then decide whether to go ahead with the walkout.

“To protect our position, the strike action due to start from Tuesday, 26 January, remains in place,” he warned.