TransPennine Express say both Scarborough and Seamer train stations will be shut due to strike action on the day the town hosts the national armed forces day event.
The news comes as TransPennine Express asks customers only to make essential journeys during week of RMT strike action.
The union has announced industrial action on Tuesday 21, Thursday 23, and Saturday 25 June and, with an amended timetable in place, TPE is warning the very few services it is able to run each day will be extremely busy. There will also be significant disruption to services on days either side of the strike action.
On the days of RMT strike action, TPE says it will operate a small number of services on just four routes (Newcastle – Edinburgh, Sheffield – Cleethorpes, Manchester Airport – Preston and Manchester Piccadilly – York), with the vast majority of its managed stations closed with no rail or replacement service available for customers.
Kathryn O’Brien, Customer Experience Director at TransPennine Express said:
“Due to the RMT action we will only be able to operate around 10 per cent of our usual daily services. Alongside other operators, we simply won’t be able to provide journeys for the tens of thousands of customers who would normally rely on us and any services we are able to run will be extremely busy.
“Therefore, we’re asking our customers to think carefully about their travel across the whole of next week and to only make essential journeys by rail. People should, where possible, consider alternative modes of transport.”
Kathryn added:
“We will do all we can to provide the best possible service for our customers, but with the limited timetable and trains starting later and finishing earlier than usual we need all our customers to plan essential journeys carefully.
“It’s extremely disappointing that RMT has chosen to take strike action which will not only cause significant disruption for our customers, but will also damage the recovery of the rail industry.
“Like many other industries, rail is still recovering from the effects of the pandemic and the latest strikes – which follow almost five months of industrial action by RMT – only serve to put this recovery at risk.
“We remain open for talks with the union, but any talks must be realistic, affordable and take into account the context of the environment in which the rail industry is now operating.”
Scarborough has been waiting for three years to host the National Armed Forces Day Event which in previous years has attracted as many as 200,000 people to the host town.
The closure of the rail stations on the day will put added pressure on the road network. People travelling by car to the Armed Forces Day event are being advised to use the Park and Ride services as a number of Scarborough cap parks will be closed on the 25th including Spa Drive and car park, Spa Forecourt car park, West Pier Car Park, Quay Street Car Park and Eastborough Car Park.
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