As around 80,000 Avanti West Coast passengers are hit by the second walk-out in a five-month series of strikes, the boss of the RMT union has claimed senior managers are paying themselves “double what our members would earn” for acting as train managers.
Three-quarters of intercity trains on the West Coast main line – connecting London Euston with the West Midlands, northwest England, North Wales and southern Scotland – have been cancelled as train managers walk out.
