Northern is advising customers travelling on Thursday the 16th and Saturday the 18th of March to ‘check before you travel’ as the RMT takes further industrial action on rail operators.

The RMT has suspended strike action by its members who work for Network Rail. However, members who work for train operators including Northern will still remain in force.

During the strike action, Northern will operate an amended timetable on both strike days with a 12-hour operation in place on some routes from 7am to 7pm.

To find out more, please visit: www.northernrailway.co.uk/strikes

Further strikes are also planned by the RMT on Thursday the 30th of March and Saturday the 1st of April.

Strike action has an impact on fleet displacement for rail operators and because of this, Northern’s services on Friday the 17th and Sunday the 19th of March will start later than usual. However, once up and running, services will return to the full timetable.

Tricia Williams, chief operating officer at Northern, said:

“We’re expecting the skeleton services we can run to be very busy – so customers should plan ahead and check before they travel.

“Given the reduced timetable only runs until 7pm, I’m very keen to stress that people should check their ‘last train home’ on those dates – so that customers don’t find themselves stranded at the wrong end of the line as a result of this action by the RMT.”

As the UK’s second-largest rail operator, Northern operates almost 2,500 services each day to over 500 stations across the North of England.