The most significant disruption from this work will be on Sunday, with industrial action then coming next week
Rail passengers are bracing for eight days of disruption as bank holiday engineering work runs into the next round of industrial action by train drivers. Network Rail said it will carry out 487 planned projects between Saturday and Monday.
Train services will also be affected by work in Cambridge, Coventry and Liverpool over the bank holiday period. Network Rail’s system operator director Anit Chandarana said: “The vast majority of the railway will be open for business as normal. “We’ve also got more work to build a new station at Cambridge South, which will play a key role in developing the city and its new biomedical campus in a sustainable way.” Train drivers who are members of the Aslef union at 16 operators will launch a six-day ban on overtime on Monday, which is expected to cause short-notice cancellations.
It emerged on Thursday that the Rail Delivery Group , which represents train operators, has written to Aslef suggesting informal talks take place which could result in more formal negotiations. Meanwhile, motorists are being warned to expect long delays as millions of people embark on bank holiday getaways.
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