Disruption is predicted for all the financial institution vacation weekend
CrossCountry rail passengers are being warned of serious disruption to its providers as a result of strike motion by the RMT union on Saturday, August 23, and Monday, August 25.
The strike will see union members, together with practice managers and senior conductors, declining to work on each days. Whereas some managers can be found to assist present a restricted service on Monday there will probably be no providers working all day on Saturday.
Passengers are strongly suggested to not journey on Saturday and as an alternative journey both aspect of the financial institution vacation weekend.
A really restricted service will function on Monday, August 25, between 8am and 6pm and passengers are suggested to verify their journeys fastidiously earlier than departing and count on all providers to be busy.
It has been confirmed there will probably be no CrossCountry service between Birmingham, Studying, and the south coast of England and no service between Leicester, Cambridge, and Stansted Airport. There’ll solely be a really restricted service to the southwest of England and north of York.
Extra particular journey particulars will probably be accessible in the end through the rail operator’s web site.
On the Monday deliberate engineering work within the West Midlands may even have an effect on the CrossCountry providers that do run which means some journeys will take longer.
Shiona Rolfe, CrossCountry’s managing director, mentioned: “We’re disenchanted for our passengers that the RMT has introduced strikes on Saturday and Monday.
“It’s massively disappointing to not function any providers on Saturday understanding the inevitable disruption to a lot of our passengers’ journeys over the financial institution vacation weekend.
“We’re dedicated to reaching an settlement with the RMT and stay accessible to proceed talks.”
All passengers planning to journey with CrossCountry over the weekend ought to verify earlier than they journey with Nationwide Rail Enquiries or on the CrossCountry web site for the most recent information and recommendation.
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