Rail passengers in Liverpool are being warned about serious disruption to train services, with two separate rounds of strike action to take place across five straight days.
There will be two 48-hour walkouts by Network Rail staff who are members of the RMT union on Tuesday, January 3 and Wednesday, January 4 and again on Friday, January 6 and Saturday, January 7.
During this action there will be just two trains per hour serving Liverpool Lime Street over reduced operating hours. That's compared to an average of 13 trains leaving every hour on a normal weekday.