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| Train strikes: Passengers told to avoid travel on Saturday | Train strikes: Passengers told to avoid travel on Saturday |
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| Passengers should avoid travelling by train unless absolutely necessary on Saturday due to expected widespread disruption from strikes, the rail industry has said. | Passengers should avoid travelling by train unless absolutely necessary on Saturday due to expected widespread disruption from strikes, the rail industry has said. |
| Unions are striking as part of a long-running series of disputes over jobs, pay and conditions. | |
| Only a fifth of trains are set to run on Saturday, with services starting late and finishing early. | Only a fifth of trains are set to run on Saturday, with services starting late and finishing early. |
| RMT union members in 15 rail companies and Network Rail will strike. | RMT union members in 15 rail companies and Network Rail will strike. |
| This is the eighth day of action taken by the union over pay and conditions. | This is the eighth day of action taken by the union over pay and conditions. |
| Disruption is set to continue into Sunday morning. | Disruption is set to continue into Sunday morning. |
| National Rail Enquiries warned customers that it is "inevitable that services will be cancelled or severely disrupted". | National Rail Enquiries warned customers that it is "inevitable that services will be cancelled or severely disrupted". |
| "There will be a very limited service on Saturday 8 October with no service at all in some places. Please only travel by train if your journey is absolutely necessary, plan ahead and check before you travel." | "There will be a very limited service on Saturday 8 October with no service at all in some places. Please only travel by train if your journey is absolutely necessary, plan ahead and check before you travel." |
| Passengers with advance, off-peak or anytime tickets affected by the strikes can use their ticket on Friday, or up to and including three days later, rail operators said. | |
| People can also change their tickets to travel on an alternate date or get a refund if their train is cancelled or rescheduled. | People can also change their tickets to travel on an alternate date or get a refund if their train is cancelled or rescheduled. |
| The RMT strikes will be widespread due to Network Rail's signalling staff striking across England, Scotland and Wales, so even where train operators are not directly involved in the dispute, only a fraction of usual services will run. | The RMT strikes will be widespread due to Network Rail's signalling staff striking across England, Scotland and Wales, so even where train operators are not directly involved in the dispute, only a fraction of usual services will run. |
| For example, the last direct train from Newcastle to London will leave at 13:53 and the last train from London to Nottingham will go at 16:32. | |
| There will be no trains between London and Edinburgh, with passengers having to travel via Glasgow. Nor will there be any direct services between London and Norwich. | |
| It will be the third day of large-scale rail disruption in just over a week. | |
| Last Saturday saw a co-ordinated strike by several unions, with only 11% of train services running. | |
| On Wednesday, many train companies ran no services as drivers in the Aslef union walked out. | |
| Scotland strikes | |
| Separately, there will be further strikes on Monday in Scotland after the RMT rejected a 5% ScotRail pay offer which it described as a "kick in the teeth". | |
| ScotRail warned of "significant disruption" to services, saying it would run "very limited" services on just three lines on the day. | |
| Trains will only run between 07:30 and 18:30, with two an hour between Milngavie and Edinburgh via Bathgate, and one train an hour between Glasgow and both Lanark and Larkhall. |