West Lothian commuters warned to expect severe disruption during three days of RMT strikes

ScotRail is warning individuals in West Lothian to anticipate important disruption throughout the newest spherical of strike motion by RMT members of Community Rail.

The RMT union introduced its members at Community Rail will take strike motion on Saturday, Monday), and Wednesday throughout the railway community ensuing from a pay dispute with the monitor and infrastructure operator.

For ScotRail clients, this implies a really restricted variety of companies will function on a restricted variety of routes.

The dispute doesn't contain ScotRail workers, nevertheless, it should have a serious affect on the prepare operator’s skill to offer companies because the RMT deliberate motion includes Community Rail workers in Scotland.

Lots of the Community Rail workers which can be due to participate within the deliberate industrial motion occupy safety-critical roles and, as such, it is not going to be potential for ScotRail to run the overwhelming majority of companies.

On the times of strike motion, 5, 7, and 9 November, ScotRail has confirmed it should function an identical service stage because the earlier strike motion on October 1 and eight.

This implies the prepare operator will run companies on 11 routes between the hours of seven.30am and 6.30pm.

The routes and frequency of service which will probably be in operation are:

Edinburgh Waverley – Glasgow Queen Avenue by way of Falkirk Excessive: two trains per hour

Edinburgh Waverley – Helensburgh Central: two trains per hour (on November 5 it will function

The prepare operator is warning clients that the ultimate companies will depart nicely earlier than 6.30, so clients ought to plan forward and guarantee they know when their final prepare will depart.

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