Transport for NSW said there will be no service on the T5 Cumberland line,and customers will need to change trains at Granville. Buses will replace trains between Lidcombe and Bankstown on the T3 Bankstown line.
The department said “heavily reduced” services will operate on the T1 North Shore and Western,T2 Inner West and Leppington,T3 Bankstown (Liverpool to Circular Quay via Bankstown),T4 Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra,T7 Olympic Park and T8 Airport and South lines.
Intercity services will run to a weekend timetable on the Blue Mountains,Central Coast and Newcastle lines,while South Coast line trains will run at reduced frequency between Wollongong and Waterfall. Trains will be replaced by buses between Wollongong to both Kiama and Port Kembla.
Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland said more than 40 meetings had been held between Sydney Trains,NSW TrainLink and unions over six months.
“We have spoken about a 2.5 per cent per annum pay increase,inclusive of superannuation,and it is incredibly disappointing unions are pushing ahead with more disruptions,” he said.
“Proposed industrial action over the next month includes cleaning bans,loud and excessive train-horn blowing across the network,and two days of major disruption. Now is not the time for the unions to be carrying out any action.”