It's been a long day for millions of London commuters getting to and from work after a 24-hour shutdown of the Tube network.

Members of the RMT, TSSA, Unite and Aslef unions walked out last night in a dispute with London Underground (LU) over workers' pay and conditions associated with the new Night Tube working. LU has contacted the conciliation service Acas to set up fresh talks with the unions.

Separately, a strike by First Great Western staff is disrupting travel between London, the west and Wales until tomorrow night.

LU says a full Tube service will run from tomorrow morning but urges commuters to check before travelling, external. Have a good evening.

Anna O'Neill
Reporter, BBC London

View from the top of the bus. Almost 1hr from Oxford Circus to the Strand #TubeStrike

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Glen Weaver

I am a nurse, I work in the operating theatre and my colleagues and myself have patients lives in our hands every single day and for that we get £28,000 pa and at least a 37.5 hour week working all hours. Yet, the tube drivers get well in excess of £10,000 a year more than me with less hours and no working through the night etc. I think they should head back to work and be grateful for both their wage, their hours and the 2% pay rise they have been offered - I would love a 2% rise.

Sitala Peek
BBC News

John is in his 60s and works in a ticket office for LU. He said he was most worried about the plans to reduce the number of ticket offices in stations.

"This won't affect me as much as others because I can retire, but it is bad news for me because I will have to work outside all of the time, in all weathers.

It can get pretty cold at the station when the wind blows and now we won't have anywhere to shelter."

@gordon1978

tweets, external: @BBClondonnews pretty quiet at Shadwell overground!

Image source, Gordon Cherrington

BBC Travel

If you're trying to travel into London from Wales or west England, or detailed information on which services are running and which ones are not, visit First Great Western's strike page on its website, external.

Image source, FGW

BBC Sport

Are you travelling back from Cardiff after the Ashes? With limited rail services because of the 48-hour strike on First Great Western, what's the situation like on the trains and stations where you are?

You can email us your pictures and comments: bristol@bbc.co.uk and Tweet us, external

Great performance by England today, by the way ... Catch up on the action here.

Sitala Peek
BBC News

Tony, works late shifts for LU that end at 01:30 and says: "We are seeing homeless people sleeping in stations, with 24-hour running and fewer members of station staff you are going to get more problems like that with drunk people.

"We've been told there will be more police officers around, but we have had no assurances about how visible they will be. It's no good if they are up in the control room or sitting with the driver if something is going on at the back of the train or in another part of the station.

"We don't want to cause disruption but it's the only option we have left to get management to address the issues we have."

Sitala Peek
BBC News

Tony is a 22-year-old LU customer service advisor who told me: "We are the first face that customers see and we regularly get lots of grief.

Image source, Tony

"I was assaulted recently by a customer because we were enforcing a one-way barrier system. He grabbed me and started threatening me. I am not paid to put up with that abuse but it's a reality of the job.

"Luckily for me there were other staff in the vicinity. Under the new night Tube plans I could be on my own. Not a week goes by that we don't have three calls to the British Transport Police but it can take them up to half an hour to get there so you are basically dealing with it by yourself."

We thought we'd share this with you for a bit of light relief. Lisa S tweeted, external this picture about 16:45 saying trains out of Waterloo a nightmare! Couldn't decide which seat to sit in!

Image source, @LondonLisaW

Lucy Thacker emailed in to say: "London Overground has a really well managed system in place that look worst than it is! Though journey is taking longer."

Image source, lucy thacker

Matt Pengelly
Local Live

Rail union leaders have rejected claims from the train company First Great Western (FGW) that more than 60% of train services are operating as normal despite today's strike action. High-speed services between London, the West of England and Wales have been halved by the industrial action.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "These figures are pure fiction", adding: "The solution to this dispute isn't manufactured fi‎gures and PR stunts, it is serious talks addressing the core issues that have forced our members to strike.‎"

In an open letter to passengers, external, FGW managing director Mark Hopwood has said: "I am determined to continue talking to the RMT to try and find a way to resolve this matter."

BBC London News

On BBC London News at 18:30 on BBC One, reporters will be at stations across the capital with the latest on how the Tube strike is affecting your journey home.

Image source, PA

BBC London's transport correspondent Tom Edwards will also have the latest on the Tube strike talks, which are due to resume tomorrow.

London Overground tweeted, external sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but the following trains will be made up of four carriages.

• 18:22 Liverpool Street to Cheshunt

• 19:10 Cheshunt to Liverpool Street

• 20:18 & 23:03 Liverpool Street to Chingford trains

• 20:55 Chingford to Liverpool Street

• 21:30 Liverpool Street to Enfield Town

• 22:22 Enfield Town to Liverpool Street.

The 48-hour strike by some First Great Western staff is over plans to dispose of guards and buffet cars on First Great Western's new Hitachi Inter City Express trains.

The first Hitachi trains will run on the Great Western main line from 2017 and the East Coast main line from 2018.

The new trains are being introduced under the Intercity Express Programme (IEP), external on routes between London Paddington and Oxford, Bristol and South Wales.

@FGW

First Great Western tweets, external: Please ensure you check the last trains, external of the evening, as they are likely to be significantly earlier than normal

BBC Travel

Just to recap:

• The strike began at 18:30 yesterday when members of the RMT union, TSSA and Unite walked out in a 24-hour action. At 21:30 members of the train drivers' union Aslef began their own 24-hour stoppage.

• Transport for London is advising there will be no Tubes for the whole of today however, a full service should resume tomorrow. Commuters are advised to check before they travel tomorrow.

So, if you're trying to get home:

• Cycle and walk where possible

• Extra bicycles will be available to hire from London's cycle hire scheme in central London

• The DLR, London Overground, bus network, tram and TfL Rail services will operate as normal, however passengers are advised to travel outside evening peak times this evening

• First Great Western staff are striking too - there will be no First Great Western service between Paddington and Greenford until after 18:00 tomorrow as a result of separate strike action

• Chiltern Railways services between Aylesbury and London Marylebone via Amersham are also affected by the lack of LU signallers today

• Up to 200 extra buses will operate on key routes

• The congestion charge remains in place

BBC London travel reporter Billy Reeves added there may be some changes to timetables at stations where mainline services and tube services intersect and some stations may not have step-free access. For the latest travel news follow @BBCTravelAlert., external

TfL Traffic News tweets, external: All lanes are now open in both bores of the Blackwall Tunnel. Southbound Q's to Old Ford, northbound to Woolwich Road.

@Timwellspent

Tim Hart enjoyed the weather while waiting for his journey to work by boat earlier, tweeting, external this picture:

Image source, @Timwellspent

"People are relaxed like any British queue," says Tim. "More boats operating would be good."

Londoners hoping to hop on a bus home this evening could be in for a long wait.

Image source, Chris Straker

Chris Straker tweeted, external this photo of commuters queuing to board a bus near Oxford Street.

This photo of buses stuck in traffic near Paddington was tweeted, external by Lauren Harding.

Image source, Lauren Harding

Follow @TfLBusAlerts, external for latest information