Further rail strikes from Christmas Eve have been announced as negotiations over pay and conditions drag on.
Members of the RMT transport union will go ahead as planned with walkouts on 13-14 and 16-17 December.
The RMT union will also tell its members not to work from 6pm on December 24 until 6am on December 27, it was announced tonight (December 5).
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Christmas Day and Boxing Day already has a reduced service due to engineering work.
But the action is set to disrupt passengers who planned to travel late in the day on December 24.
It is in addition to RMT’s planned strikes on December 13, 14, 16 and 17, and on January 3, 4, 6 and 7.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said "we’ve got no choice” after his union rejected train companies' “very poor” offer of a 4 per cent pay rise two years in a row.
As inflation tops 11 per cent, he said it was train firms that were holding the travelling public "to ransom", adding: “We’ve been compelled to take this action because of the intransigence of the government".
He went on: “They want to close every booking office in Britain."
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) offered a backdated 4 per cent pay rise for 2022 with the same again next year and guarantee of no compulsory redundancies before April 2024.
But within hours of the offer on Sunday it was rejected by the RMT.
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