and your advice to customers, briefly? plan ahead. pop on and look at the website. it ll give you all the details that you need. if you need to speak to staff in the stations, please do so. 0n the days of the strike, we will have staff available in stations. they will still be here scotrail are not on strike and we ll do all we can to help people and advise. that s great. appreciate your time. thank you very much. and apart from scotrail, cross border services will also be affected, and the caledonian sleeper, as well. it will run tonight but that will be the last one this week, and customers are being advised to check the website, and caledonian sleeper customers will get a refund if they were planning to travel later this week. alexander mackenzie reporting from glasgow. alexander mackenzie reporting from glasgow. just a handful of train routes will run in wales during the strikes. although transport for wales are not involved in the dispute, the vast majority of lines rely on netw
so our advice to customers is to plan ahead, only travel if it s really necessary, and nothing further out operating than the central belt. so, when you talk about the central belt, you re talking about that area around edinburgh and glasgow, so what areas will be covered and how many services will still be running for customers going between the two cities? so there ll be five routes, so we ll connect edinburgh and glasgow. some of those services will run via shotts, falkirk high. we ll also see a service from edinburgh to bathgate, and we ll see larkhall and lanark serviced. so that s around 180 services, so around 10% of what we ve been operating, so quite a significant drop. and, as i ve said, we need customers to plan ahead, understand it s a very limited timetable. it also finishes earlier in the day as well, and to make sure that they have not got themself in a position where they can t travel. and what about commuters around the rest of the country? dundee, inverness, aberdeen?
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the dispute does not involve scotrail staff, but it relies on network rail workers to operate signal boxes and maintain track. 0ur scotland reporter, alexandra mackenzie, has the latest from glasgow queen street station. there s going to be a lot of disruption here across scotland. there are some passengers here today, but it is looking quite quiet already, and, yes, ithink you just got it right there lots of frustration here, and i am joined by someone from scotrail. phil campbell, you re head of customer operations. you re not out on strike, but it is going to affect scotrail. just how much, how many of your services will you be cutting? so the uk wide strike will have a significant impact on scotrail and on the days of the strike, which is the 21st, 23rd and 25th, we ll only be able to operate a very limited service in the central belt, and that will be across five routes.
so the uk wide strike will have a significant impact on scotrail and on the days of the strike, which is the 21st, 23rd and 25th, we ll only be able to operate a very limited service in the central belt, and that will be across five routes. so our advice to customers is to plan ahead, only travel if it s really necessary, and nothing further out operating than the central belt. so, when you talk about the central belt, you re talking about that area around edinburgh and glasgow, so what areas will be covered and how many services will still be running for customers going between the two cities? so there ll be five routes, so we ll connect edinburgh and glasgow. some of those services will run via shotts, falkirk high. we ll also see a service from edinburgh to bathgate, and we ll see larkhall and lanark serviced.