Train passengers are being warned to expect disruption to continue after the latest round of strikes by rail workers come to an end.
Members of the RMT union who work for Network Rail ended their latest walkout over pay and conditions at 06:00 GMT.
The later start means many trains will not begin running until at least 09:00 and as late as midday in some places.
Network Rail said 70% of services will be operating but it has urged passengers to check their travel times.
The first train from London to Edinburgh will not leave from Kings Cross station until 10:30 but passengers are warned that services are reduced with some journey times longer than usual.
Most services will not call at York due to engineering work at the station, London North Eastern Railway said.
There are no services running to or from Euston until this afternoon due to engineering work.
London's Liverpool Street station is also shut due to works, and there are limited services from London Victoria.
Some airport transfer services are affected - the Gatwick Express to Victoria is suspended and Heathrow Express trains from Paddington will not resume until after 11:00.
There were no trains due out of London Stansted Airport into the capital until after 08:00. Long queues had snaked outside the airport's arrivals hall throughout Boxing Day as people waited for bus services into London.
Adding to the delays for travellers, 1,000 Border Force passport control staff at Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Gatwick, Heathrow (terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5) and Manchester airports, went on strike on Boxing Day and will walk out again from Wednesday to Saturday.
A spokesman for Network Rail said: "Staff are returning to work so it is [a] much later start-up for passenger services."
"Passengers should really check before they travel so they don't just turn up at a station for no trains to be there."
ScotRail said it aims to restore some services from about 07:15 but warned there will be some disruption throughout the day.
"Routes across the country will see services start up later than normal due to signal boxes opening at different times following industrial action," ScotRail said.
Thousands of RMT members across Network Rail, which operates and maintains the rail system, and 14 train companies have been engaged in strike action in a row over pay and conditions.
It coincides with wider industrial unrest across a number of sectors including nurses and ambulance drivers as well as Border Force workers at six of the UK's biggest airports.
Employees are walking out over pay at a time when the rate of price rises, or inflation, is running at a 40-year high.
Rail strikes will restart between 3 and 4 January as well as from 6 to 7 January.
In the meantime, there is an overtime ban by RMT members at 14 train companies, which is scheduled to run until 2 January.
Network Rail hopes service levels will increase to 90% in the days ahead.
However, it expects this will drop to 20% of normal services once the next set of strikes begins in early January.
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the RMT, said: "The union remains available for talks to resolve this dispute.
"But until the government gives the rail industry a mandate to come to a negotiated settlement on job security, pay and condition of work, our industrial campaign will continue into the new year, if necessary."
A spokesman for Network Rail said: "The only way we're going to resolve any industrial dispute is by negotiation and by talking so of course we'll look to sit round the table.
"It is just unclear at the moment where we can go as all the cards we have to deal are already on the table."
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