🚆Train strike gets Christmas bank holiday off to a slow start National Rail has warned strikes will continue into the new year, as the rail industry gears up for five days of walkouts in January
as the rail industry gears up for five days of walkouts in January.
which runs until 9pm tonight, which has paralysed rail travel across large swathes of the UK, from Penzance to the Midlands and from Wales and northern England to Scotland. The RMT is holding two 48-hour strikes again on 3 and 4 and 6 to 7 January, when just 20 per cent of services will operate, with a warning that the impacts of the action will be felt either side of the strikes too. Fewer trains will also run on Thursday 5 January when drivers join the walk out.
National Rail has said there may also be some disruption to services on Sunday 8 January, as workers return to their roles.
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