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Drivers do not park them - they leave them in the front yard and the shunters take them to be cleaned and parked in their allocated space.
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If so, they could be left in the front yard for 48 hours, assuming that's behind the gates which give access. The shunters and cleaners can then take up the usual routine 48 hours later. Security should not be an insuperable problem.
DB management have handled this appallingly badly: they managed to give a little more than 24 hour notice of hitherto unexpected disruption. The unions are obliged to give at least a week's notice.
I hear a DB spokeswoman mention Health and Safety as a reason in a radio interview this morning. It has nothing to do with Health and Safety, although it may have something to do with security. This just confirms my view that the Health and Safety mantra is so often a convenient excuse for laziness, incompetence and indifference to customers