By LNER and East Midlands Rail announce majorly reduced timetables
The largest rail strike in more than 30 years will be taking place next week as LNER and EMR have confirmed they will be running majorly reduced services.
The strike action has been called by the Rail, Maritime, and Transport union, following calls from the government for the rail sector to reduce costs by around 10%.
The RMT say the only way to do this would be to cut jobs, so have planned a three-day protest which will see over 50,000 rail workers take part in the biggest rail dispute since 1989.
The 24-hour long strikes take place on Tuesday, June 21, Thursday, June 23 and Saturday, June 25.
LNER has now released its timetables, subject to final Network Rail validation, for the week beginning Monday, June 20.
On the three days of walkouts, there will be no LNER trains to or from Lincoln at all, while the days in between will see just a few services to London King’s Cross.
LNER has asked people to avoid travelling via train over this period if at all possible as the remaining services will be extremely busy.
The full timetable is avaible on the LNER timetable.
East Midlands Railway has also published a timetable for the affected days, in which Lincoln routes are again majorly affected to the point of no services running to or from the city.
A spokesperson for EMR said: “We will be operating a significantly reduced service on these dates. We ask customers to only travel by rail if necessary. If you do decide to travel, plan ahead and leave extra time for disruption and short notice changes.
“This includes the days between strikes as we will be running a reduced level of service and expect some disruption to the advertised service levels, particularly on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.”
As for Northern Rail, the website still states that timetables for the full week in which strikes take place will be released soon, but customers are again being advised not to travel between June 21 and 26.
A statement reads: “On strike days there will be extremely limited availability of both train crew and signalling staff and as such we will not be able to operate services on most routes. There will be no replacement buses or alternative travel provided.
“Where we are able to operate trains, services will be very limited, and trains will not start as early as normal and will finish much earlier than normal.”
You can read more and check out the timetables on the Northern Rail website.
