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The first 72-hour strike by the Tube infrastructure workers was suspended on Tuesday night after a marathon talks session between the union, Metronet, its administrator and Transport for London (TfL).

“Our reps are happy that they now have a full pension-scheme rescue in place, and that the issue of job losses has been resolved,” RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.

“However, there remain issues to be resolved around the train-fleet contract with Bombardier, and we are seeking further talks with Metronet and the administrator."

“It is only once those issues have been resolved that we will be in a position to settle the dispute, and the RMT executive has therefore suspended rather called off the strike action."

“TfL have done themselves no favours by insisting that nothing had changed as a result of the lengthy negotiations on Tuesday night. It did not help either that yesterday we had to deal with crude attempts to victimise some of our members, despite the written undertaking given on Tuesday."

“Our members have delivered a rock-solid and 100 per cent effective strike in defence of their jobs and pensions, and the clear message is that any further attacks will be met with more of the same,” Bob Crow said.

The news of the suspension of further Tube strikes will come as a relief to the three million workers who were forced to find alternative ways to travel to and from work, after industrial action left only two out of twelve London Underground lines running.

A strike by RMT members on 'One' Railway network on Saturday 15 and Monday 17 September threatens to cause disruption to commuters in and out of London's Liverpool Street station.