Published on: Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Last updated: Friday, 25 August 2023
Greater Anglia customers are advised to check before they travel due to industrial action taking place on Saturday 26 August, Friday 1 September and Saturday 2 September. The RMT trade union has announced strike action on successive Saturdays. The ASLEF trade union has also announced strike action on Friday 1 September and action short of a strike on Saturday 2 September. The impact on services is expected to be as follows:
Service Plans for 26 August
Trains will be running across the company’s network between 07:00 and 23:00 (or until 19.00 in the case of three routes, with many routes having a normal or near normal service between those hours. Some routes will have a reduced frequency and certain routes will see no services at all.
The following services will not run:
Ipswich – Felixstowe
Colchester - Walton-on-the-Naze via Colchester Town
Bishop’s Stortford – Stratford
Hertford East - London Liverpool Street
Meridian Water – Stratford
Customers are also advised that on Saturday 26 August, the following services will run between 07:00 and 19:00 only:
Cambridge - London Liverpool Street
Ipswich - Cambridge
Norwich - Stansted Airport
Passengers should be aware that our routes will run at the following frequency:
Witham - Braintree: every hour
Clacton-on-Sea - Witham: every hour
Colchester Town - Witham: every hour
Ipswich - Witham: every hour
Norwich - Witham: every hour
Southend Victoria - London Liverpool Street: every 20 minutes
Stansted Airport - London Liverpool Street: every 30 minutes - these trains will call at Cheshunt after 19.00
Ipswich - Lowestoft: every two hours
Ipswich - Peterborough: every two hours
Marks Tey - Sudbury: every hour
Norwich - Great Yarmouth: every hour
Norwich - Lowestoft: every hour
Norwich - Sheringham: every hour
Wickford - Southminster: every 40 minutes
Ipswich Town v Leeds United
Supporters visiting Portman Road should be aware that the last services on some lines will depart significantly earlier than usual after the fixture.
Last Ipswich to Cambridge service: 17.21
Last Ipswich to Peterborough service: 17.58
There will be no alternative transport between these destinations after the final service.
A summary of the service patterns for each route on affected dates is available on either National Rail Enquiries or www.greateranglia.co.uk
Some services are also affected by engineering works.
On Saturday 26 August and Sunday 27 August engineering works will affect Great Eastern Main Line services, with rail replacement buses running between Witham and Ingatestone.
Service Plans for 1 September
Service plans are being worked on for this date. However, it is likely that only a very reduced service will operate, for reduced hours, and probably only on the Norwich to London, Colchester to London, Southend to London and Stansted Airport to London routes. Further details will be provided as soon as they are confirmed.
Service Plans for 2 September
Trains will be running across the company’s network between 07:00 and 23:00, with many routes having a normal or near normal service between those hours. Some routes will have a reduced frequency and certain routes will see no services at all.
The services which will not run at all, on both days, are as follows:
Ipswich – Felixstowe
Colchester - Walton-on-the-Naze via Colchester Town
Bishop’s Stortford – Stratford
Hertford East - London Liverpool Street
Meridian Water – Stratford
A summary of the service patterns for each route on affected dates is available on either National Rail Enquiries or www.greateranglia.co.uk
Some services are also affected by engineering works on both dates.
On Saturday 2 September, mainline services between Norwich and Ipswich, and regional services between Ipswich and Cambridge/ Peterborough, are also affected by engineering works.
On all days affected by industrial action, there is a risk of short-notice service alterations or cancellations. Services on the days after strike days also start slightly later than normal.
Other train operators are also affected by both sets of industrial action.
Passenger assistance arrangements will be available as usual on all days, but anyone requiring assistance should plan their journey and book assistance in advance if possible.
Jamie Burles, Greater Anglia’s managing director, said:
“With industrial action taking place, on 26 August and 2 September there will be some alterations and cancellations across our network, plus some routes where no trains will run at all, while on 1 September it is expected that trains only will operate on four routes, with no services at all on the rest of the network.
“We are sorry for any inconvenience caused by these service alterations and advise customers to plan ahead and check before they travel.”
Customers can find all train times by using journey planners on either National Rail Enquiries or www.greateranglia.co.uk
Journey planners will be updated with exact train times 3 days before each strike date.