Commuters across Glasgow will be disrupted this week due to industrial action by signalling workers.

ScotRail have said there will be a number of alterations to services which travel through Glasgow Central on Tuesday.

Signalling workers are to stage two one day strikes on February 14 and March 2 in a row over career progression following the breakdown of talks.

Members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union, based at the West of Scotland centre, will walk out for 24 hours from 5.59am on Tuesday.

ScotRail say the Glasgow to Greenock/Wemyss Bay service will be reduced from three trains to two trains an hour, with the Cathcart circle service which serves the south side of the city withdrawn. Commuters in that area are urged to use Neilston and Newton trains instead.

The Neilston and Newton service, however, has also been reduced to an hourly service from around 7pm. A normal service should run until that time, the rail operator said.

Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal will reduce to one train an hour until 7pm, when a replacement bus service will be implemented. The same will apply to the Glasgow to Whifflet train. 

The Glasgow to Barrhead/Kilmarnock train will run every half an hour, with local trains in Barrhead cancelled.

The strike will also cause a hangover affect into Wednesday, with the following services already cancelled:

06:07 Whifflet to Glasgow Central
06:30 Paisley Canal to Glasgow Central
07:15 Newton to Glasgow Central
07:30 Paisley Canal to Glasgow Central
06:08 Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal
06:18 Glasgow Central to Whifflet
06:36 Glasgow Central to Newton
06:52 Glasgow Central to Barrhead
07:08 Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal
07:14 Glasgow Central - Cathcart - Glasgow Central

Signalling workers staged a 72-hour stoppage over Christmas but suspended further action to allow for further talks. The union claims Network Rail is refusing to stick to a long-standing local arrangement where, when a resident post becomes vacant, it goes to a senior staff member.

RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: "RMT has tried to reach a negotiated settlement to this unilateral ripping-up of a local arrangement but unfortunately the management have refused to see sense and have failed to engage with us seriously since the strike action over Christmas.

"RMT members will not stand by while management unilaterally rip up agreements and practices that have been in place at local level for decades. As a consequence of management's continued intransigence we have no option but to go ahead with this further wave of strike action.

"RMT members are furious at this refusal to comply with a local arrangement that offers genuine career progression opportunities. RMT remains available for talks at any time aimed at resolving this dispute."

A Network Rail spokesman said: "We're confident we will run a comprehensive service for passengers if these strikes go ahead.

"More than 95% of services across Scotland ran as timetabled during the last strike. Only a small number of local Glasgow services had to be reduced. We remain committed to resolving the dispute, but cannot meet the RMT's demand that jobs should be awarded on seniority rather than ability.

"Despite the RMT's claim that no effort has been made to resolve the dispute, in reality we met them with Acas in January and reached an agreement which committed both sides to more discussions to resolve the dispute. These discussions had commenced and were progressing constructively, which makes the RMT's sudden call for further strike action difficult to understand."