Greater Anglia staff to walk out again later this month
ASLEF union members are to hold a third day of strikes on 23 July
Union members at Greater Anglia have voted to hold another day of strike action later this month.
ASLEF members have backed a walkout in a dispute over pay and conditions.
It's the third day of strike action by members of ASLEF. Members of the RMT held three days of walkouts last month.
Greater Anglia Managing Director Jamie Burles said: “We hope this dispute can be resolved and the strike action proposed for 23 July cancelled, but in the meantime we want to give our customers as much notice as possible that there will be disruption if the strike does go ahead.
“We are making arrangements and drawing up timetables in case the action does take place, and we will keep our customers updated.
“If there is a strike, our advice to customers will be to avoid travelling on our trains. With drivers on strike, we can only run minimal services and just on limited routes and between limited hours too for most of those routes.
“We are aware that many customers will have plans to travel – it’s the first weekend of the school holidays and the weekend of the Latitude Festival. We’re genuinely sorry if this strike disrupts people’s plans.”
ASLEF members also walked out on July 2, leading to severely reduced services between Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Southend, Stansted and London.
There was also no service on branch lines or regional routes.
Elsewhere, members of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association have announced strike action affecting c2c services in Essex.