Aslef will stage a one-day strike on Friday September 1 with Northern, TransPennine Express and Avanti West Coast services affected
Rail strikes are set to take place during the Blackpool Illuminations switch-on potentially impacting visitors planning to make the trip.
The greatest free lights show on earth is expected to attract thousands to the seaside resort and also includes a parade held outside for the first time since 2019. Pop singer Sophie Ellis Bextor will have the honour of switching on the illuminations which will light up each night for four months. Mick Whelan, Aslef’s general secretary, said: "We don’t want to take this action but the train companies, and the government which stands behind them, have forced us into this place because they refuse to sit down and talk to us and have not made a fair and sensible pay offer to train drivers who have not had one for four years – since 2019 – while prices have soared in that time by more than 12 per cent.
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