Well if the information I was given doesn't change you should be ok, but things could change. We are travelling on Dec 17th but I think we may book a coach.
According to the ticket office at Southampton Station when I enquired one day last week there will be one 10 carriage train an hour to Waterloo during the strike. Of course as others have said, it probably won't be that straight forward.
Our experience of South Western Trains when they are on strike is that rather than there being no trains there is just complete chaos and no such thing as a revised timetable. We are pretty much at their mercy here but have always managed to get to our destination without too much delay. Good luck with your journey, we aren’t looking forward to December train travel either!
Exactly that. Where do I look, now, to see if I can get from Waterloo to Southampton on 9th December with this train strike? Do they release the revised timetables now?