Scots face rail chaos as trains cancelled on major routes due to strikes

SCOTS are set to face rail chaos as trains on major routes have been cancelled due to strikes.

Rail services between between Scotland, London and the North of England will be impacted by the train driver’s industrial action.

Trains to Glasgow Central, Inverness and Aberdeen have been cancelled.

LNER workers who are members of the train driver’s union, ASLEF will down tools.

The dispute is over pay and terms and conditions.

The railway company announced on social media that it will reduce services between King’s Cross and Edinburgh Waverley and Leeds.

It warned there would be a small impact on services on Sunday following the strikes.

Tickets dated from Thursday 18 to Wednesday 24 in the same class of travel.

London to Edinburgh’s first train will run at 7.3om am with the service concluding at 4pm.

Aslef members at the company are also refusing to work overtime this weekend.

Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, said: “Train drivers are fed up with the bad faith shown by this company, probably at the behest of the transport secretary, Mark Harper, and the rail minister, Huw Merriman.

“We are not prepared to put up with being bullied and pushed about by a company that thinks it can break agreements whenever it feels like it.”