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CrossCountry – which runs services between Manchester and Birmingham and other major UK cities – are running a ‘limited’ service on SaturdayCrossCountry run services between Manchester and Birmingham(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

A train company which runs a number of services in and out of Manchester is warning passengers of ‘significant disruption’ tomorrow (Saturday, October 18).<\/p>\n

Train managers and senior conductors at CrossCountry Trains, who are members of the Rail and Maritime Union (RMT), had been due to strike tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It was announced earlier today (Friday) that tomorrow’s walk-out had been suspended after the union said there had been ‘progress in talks.’<\/p>\n

However, the firm, which runs services between Manchester and Birmingham as well as other major UK towns and cities, says the development has come too late to amend their timetable.<\/p>\n

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As a result, they say they will still only be running a ‘limited’ service’ and are warning of ‘significant’ disruption.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the company said only a ‘significantly reduced number’ of CrossCountry services will be able to run to the South West, South Coast and north of York.<\/p>\n

Passengers – including those in Manchester – are being warned of ‘significant disruption’ to CrossCountry’s normal timetable(Image: Mark Waugh Manchester Press Photography Ltd)<\/p>\n

Some services between Birmingham and Manchester will be running, but they will be every two hours.<\/p>\n

No services will call at Coventry, Wolverhampton, Durham, Chesterfield, Basingstoke, Dunbar, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnmouth, Worcestershire Parkway, Wakefield Westgate, or Morpeth.<\/p>\n

There will be no services between Birmingham, Leicester, Cambridge and Stansted and Nottingham to Cardiff.<\/p>\n

In the Southwest, there will be no services south of Bristol and in Scotland there will be no services north of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Services between Birmingham, Leeds and York will run every two hours.<\/p>\n

CrossCountry\u2019s Managing Director, Shiona Rolfe, said: \u201cThough we are pleased to have made progress in our negotiations with RMT colleagues, I am sincerely sorry for the significant disruption that customers will nonetheless experience this Saturday 18 October.<\/p>\n

“Timetabling processes require train operators to finalise planned services several days in advance, which means that we are not able to reinstate a normal timetable for CrossCountry services in time for Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would urge all those planning to travel on CrossCountry routes this Saturday to check options to change or cancel their journey at no cost on the CrossCountry website.\u201d<\/p>\n

The RMT said a strike called for November remains in place.<\/p>\n

An union spokesperson said: \u201cWe have suspended strike action this Saturday after making progress in talks. We are still in dispute and seeking a negotiated settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CrossCountry – which runs services between Manchester and Birmingham and other major UK cities – are running a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,20083,7857,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-507132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-piccadilly-train-station","13":"tag-trains","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115390270581772999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}