THIS weekend’s Tube strike will clash with Greater Anglia suspending services between London Liverpool Street and Shenfield.

Tomorrow there will be no Greater Anglia trains between Ingatestone or Wickford and London Liverpool Street.

Rail replacement bus services will run between Ingatestone and Wickford to Newbury Park London Tube Station – but a 48 hour walkout by Tube staff is due to start at 9pm tomorrow.

TfL warn Tube services will run but many stations may open late, close early, or may not open.

Derek Monnery, chairman of the Essex Rail Users Federation, said: “It is really not acceptable to effectively close East Anglia’s rail service for ten weekends.

“It is a sledgehammer to crack a nut really, they have thought of this purely from an engineering view point and not from a passenger one at all.

“I’m not so sure the Tube strike will happen because they have already settled with the RMT and they are the most militant of the unions.”

Mr Monnery said attendance at tomorrow’s Essex football derby in Southend could suffer He said: “It will have a massive impact on fans going from Colchester to Southend for the Essex derby as you will have fans that would’ve gone, but won’t because it’ll be too difficult.

“It will effect shoppers into London, weekend workers and those who use the rail network to see family at the weekend.

“I would’ve thought they could have run a limited service, rather than just shut the lines.”

If the strike goes ahead, London Underground services would be disrupted from early evening tomorrow and all day on Sunday and Monday.

The strike involves Tube station staff, which means Tube services will be running, but many stations may open late, close early, or may not open.

Abellio Greater Anglia has timetabled a special bus service for fans. Passengers from Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester and branch lines should change at Chelms-ford on to special buses that will travel directly to Wickford, where fans can continue on to Prittlewell or Southend Victoria on the trains.

There is also a special bus service in the opposite direction after the game has finished.

Fans going to tomorrow’s Tottenham Hotspur v Watford game will have extra services which have been arranged to call at Northumberland Park both before and after the game.

The disruption due to Crossrail work is continuing on Sunday and affects trains on the Greater Anglia lines every weekend throughout February.

Weekend engineering works on the Tube, TfL Rail and London Overground will go ahead.

Details are available from www.tfl.gov.uk/status-updates