People across Scotland are set for three days of travel disruption as RMT announced the dates of a national strike that will be taking place across the Great Britain railway network.

Across June 21, 23 and 25 there will be a very limited number of services operating only in the Central Belt.

There will be no trains on the Helensburgh Central-Edinburgh route, or any other service via Glasgow Queen Street low level.

And the West Highland line via Helensburgh Upper will also see all services cancelled.

Only five routes across Scotland will operate, with no service on any other route.

What ScotRail services are affected by the strikes?

As it stands, there will be no service operating in Helensburgh, and only the following services will operate in Scotland between 7:30am and 6:30pm on June 21, 23 and 25:

  • Edinburgh – Glasgow via Falkirk High: two trains per hour
  • Edinburgh – Bathgate: two trains per hour
  • Glasgow – Hamilton/Larkhall: two trains per hour
  • Glasgow – Lanark: two trains per hour
  • Edinburgh – Glasgow via Shotts: one train per hour

No other areas will be serviced during these days.

Scotrail urges only to travel if necessary

During these days Scotrail has urged people not to travel unless necessary, and if you do then you should expect disruption and plan ahead.

On the days following strike action, there will be disruption caused by the reopening of signal boxes at different times across the country.

Scotrail says that while the large signalling centres at Yoker, West of Scotland and Edinburgh will be able to operate from 0715, this will not be the case at manual boxes elsewhere and it may well be early afternoon before many routes are able to operate as normal.

This is particularly the case for routes outwith the central belt.

ScotRail says that while there will be half-hourly services to and from Helensburgh Central on Wednesday, June 22 and Friday, June 24, there will be no trains on the route before 7am.

And because of a separate dispute between ScotRail and the train drivers' union, ASLEF, there will be very limited evening services on the Helensburgh route on those two dates, with the last train of the day leaving Helensburgh Central at 8.02pm.

For full details of the Helensburgh services on the days in between the three 24-hour strikes, click here.

David Simpson, ScotRail's service delivery director, said: “It is very unfortunate to see such widespread disruption across the whole of the Great Britain rail network and we know this will be frustrating for ScotRail customers.

“Regrettably, this strike action by RMT members of Network Rail means that we will not be able to operate the vast majority of our services during the period of strike action. Customers should expect significant disruption to services next week, including on the days between strike action.

“On the five routes where we are able to operate a very limited service on strike days, we’re advising customers to seek alternative means of transport and to only travel if they really need to.”

You can see all services that are running on June 22 and 24 on the website here.