Trains will be in short supply across the North East on Wednesday when RMT union members go on strike again.
Employees working for 14 rail operators, including LNER, CrossCountry, TransPennine and Northern are set to walk out again on Wednesday July 27, along with colleagues from Network Rail. They are then set to strike again on August 18 and August 20.
Union leaders announced the July and August strikes after rejecting a new offer from Network Rail which they described as “paltry”. The offer was for a 4% pay rise backdated to January, another 2% next year and a further 2% conditional on achieving “modernisation milestones”.