Major rail companies have advised passengers to not travel on their services during planned strike action next week.

Striking from June 21, 23 and 25, are railway and train workers who are members of RMT, a union which has decided to strike amid salary and sick pay disputes, among others.

With an amended timetable in place, TransPennine Express (TPE) is warning the very few services it is able to run each day will be extremely busy.

The company serves Carlisle for their Scotland to Manchester services.

There will also be significant disruption to services on days either side of the strike action.

There will be no TPE services calling at Carlisle during these days.

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.

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“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.”

This advice is echoed by Avanti West Coast and Northern, with the latter advising passengers not to travel on their trains at all between June 21 and 26.

Northern is expecting to run a very limited timetable and is suggesting customers do not travel on the strike dates and, wherever possible, not to travel on those in-between as well.

Customers should try to find alternative transport if their journey is essential.

Details of the services able to run will be released as soon as possible to customers.

Click here for the latest advice and information from Northern.

Avanti West Coast expects to run one train per hour from Euston to each of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Preston with a limited service to Glasgow.

Customers with tickets for travel from June 21 to 26 can use those tickets anytime between now and June 27.

Alternatively, a full refund can be claimed with no admin fees if passengers have tickets for June 21 to 26.

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