Scotrail are warning customers in Glasgow that they could expect 'significant' delays during the latest round of strike action by RMT members of Network Rail.
The RMT union announced that its Network Rail members would take part in a 24-hour strike which is set to take place in early October across the Great Britain railway network resulting from a pay dispute with the track and infrastructure operator.
The dates announced are October 1 which falls this Saturday with a second strike taking place next weekend on October 8, also a Saturday.
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Due to this, there will be a "very limited number" of services operating on a "limited number of routes" with Glasgow affected.
LNER have announced that all trains north of York have been cancelled on October 1, warning passengers to plan ahead as there will be no trains to Glasgow.
Although the dispute does not involve ScotRail staff, it will have a knock-on-effect. However the RMT trade union have also announced strike action on October 10 (Monday) due to a dispute with ScotRail.
A limited amount of trains will run with the last train operating until 6.30pm with ScotRail asking customers to plan ahead and ensure they know when their last train will depart.
ScotRail said: "The RMT union announced its members at Network Rail will take part in 24-hour strike action on Saturday, October 1 and Saturday, October 8, across the Great Britain railway network resulting from a pay dispute with the track and infrastructure operator.
"For ScotRail customers, this means a very limited number of services will operate on a limited number of routes.
"On the days of strike action, October 1 and 8 October, ScotRail has confirmed it will operate a similar service level as the previous strike action on August 18 and 20 August, with the addition of one train per hour between Edinburgh Waverley and Larbert, and Fife services extending from Inverkeithing to Dunfermline and Cowdenbeath.
"Edinburgh to North Berwick services, which had been in operation on previous strike days, will not run due to planned engineering works along the route. This means the train operator will run services on 11 routes across the Central Belt, Fife, and the Borders between the hours of 7.30am and 6.30pm."
David Simpson, ScotRail Service Delivery Director, added: “It’s really disappointing to see more widespread disruption across the whole Great Britain rail network at a time when we need to be encouraging more people back to the railway.
“For ScotRail, it’s going to mean that we won’t be able to operate the vast majority of our services, which we know will be really frustrating for our customers.
“ScotRail customers should expect significant disruption to services on Saturday, October, 1 and Saturday, 8th, as well as on the following days.
“We’re advising customers to seek alternative means of transport and to only travel if they really need to on the day of strike action. Customers should check your journey in advance to make sure your train is running if you’re travelling on the day following strike action, Sunday, October 2 October and October Sunday, 9.”
The routes and frequency of service which will be in operation are:
- Edinburgh Waverley – Glasgow Queen Street via Falkirk High: two trains per hour
- Edinburgh Waverley – Helensburgh Central: two trains per hour
- Glasgow Central – Hamilton/Larkhall: two trains per hour
- Glasgow Central – Lanark: two trains per hour
- Edinburgh Waverley – Glasgow Central via Shotts: one train per hour
- Edinburgh Waverley – Cowdenbeath: two trains per hour
- Edinburgh Waverley – Tweedbank: two trains per hour
- Edinburgh Waverley – Larbert: one train per hour
- Glasgow Queen Street – Larbert: one train per hour
- Glasgow Queen Street – Falkirk Grahamston: one train per hour
- Milngavie – Springburn: two trains per hour
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