Network Rail has warned that the three-day prepare strike subsequent week will trigger six days of disruption to providers.
More than 40,000 workers at Network Rail and 13 prepare operators are anticipated to stroll out subsequent week on Tuesday 21, Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 June in a dispute over pay and redundancies.
Network Rail mentioned the six days of disruption are as a result of impression on providers on the times in between the strikes.
The firm mentioned on strains which might be open, providers will function from 7.30am to six.30pm solely and never all stations will probably be served.
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It has suggested passengers “who must travel” to “plan ahead” to make sure they will full their journeys inside this window.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps informed the Commons the proposed rail strikes are “entirely pointless” and “counterproductive” as a result of the pay freeze for rail workers was “coming to an end”.
“These are entirely pointless, counterproductive strikes. They should never have been called and the party opposite should recognise that fact,” the transport secretary informed MPs.
Earlier in his speech, Mr Shapps mentioned the federal government protected the railway in the course of the pandemic, with a package deal equal to “£600 for every household in this country”, or “£160,000 per rail worker”.
But he added that “this level of subsidy… simply cannot continue forever”.
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The transport secretary additionally accused Labour of not caring about employees who will probably be attempting to get to their places of work subsequent week amid the deliberate strikes.
“It is inexplicable how the party who style themselves as the workers’ party don’t seem to care about the fact that these people, that anyone that is trying to get anywhere will lose pay,” he mentioned.
Mr Shapps confronted heckling from the Labour benches all through his speech, with shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth branding the deliberate industrial motion “Tory strikes”.
The map above signifies which strains are nonetheless working in the course of the strike interval.
No passenger providers will serve places akin to Penzance in Cornwall, Bournemouth in Dorset, Swansea in South Wales, Holyhead in North Wales, Chester in Cheshire and Blackpool, Lancashire.
There can even be no passenger trains working north from Glasgow or Edinburgh, and the final trains to and from London will probably be a lot sooner than regular.
Open strains embrace the West Coast Main Line from London to Scotland by way of places akin to Birmingham and Manchester.
Talks geared toward averting crippling strikes on the railways are persevering with however with little hope of a last-minute deal to avert industrial motion which can result in journey chaos subsequent week.
A variety of massive occasions together with Glastonbury Festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June could possibly be affected by the commercial motion.
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The variety of passenger providers on the strike days is predicted to be restricted to round 4,500 in contrast with 20,000 usually.
Network Rail mentioned it desires to chop between 1,500 and a couple of,000 frontline jobs in a bid to cut back prices, enhance security and increase productiveness.
Andrew Haines, Network Rail chief government mentioned: “Talks have not progressed as far as I had hoped and so we must prepare for a needless national rail strike and the damaging impact it will have.”
Network Rail mentioned solely round half of Britain’s rail community will probably be open on strike days with a really restricted service working on strains.
On the times following the strike, the corporate says solely round 12,000-14,000 providers will be capable of run on account of signallers and management workers not working in a single day shifts that start on the strike dates.
The RMT and Unite are additionally collaborating in industrial motion which can have an effect on the London Underground on 21 June.
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