Northern Rail issue ‘do not travel’ advice for first week in January

The journey recommendation comes as throughout the first week of 2023, RMT and ASLEF strikes will deliver the rail community to a halt.

Strikes are deliberate for Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 of January.

Tricia Williams, chief working officer at Northern, mentioned: “This can be a most regrettable begin to 2023 and we are able to solely apologise to our clients whose return to work from the vacations shall be disrupted by the motion by the RMT and ASLEF.

“For a lot of, Monday January 9 shall be their first expertise of our new timetable – which went dwell in December and consists of a further 3,000 providers per week throughout our community.

“As such, we’re encouraging everybody to make use of the brand new ‘Examine My Timetable’ function on our web site to see the adjustments particular to their native station.”

The commercial motion going down consists of two 48-hour stroll outs by the RMT on 3-4 and 6-7 January; and ASLEF members staging a one-day strike on 5 January.

Northern is the second largest prepare operator within the UK, with practically 2,500 providers a day to greater than 500 stations throughout the North of England. 

The RMT state that each pay provides from Community Rail and the prepare working corporations are nicely under what has been agreed in Scotland and in Wales.

RMT normal secretary Mick Lynch mentioned: “The union stays out there for talks to resolve this dispute.

“However till the federal government offers the rail trade a mandate to come back to a negotiated settlement on job safety, pay and situation of labor, our industrial marketing campaign will proceed into the brand new 12 months, if mandatory.”

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