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Evening Standard
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Michael Howie and Daniel Keane

Train strikes: RMT confirms 40,000 workers will walk out next Wednesday causing more travel misery in growing UK ‘summer of discontent’

Merseyrail trains lined up on the track at Kirkdale Depot (Peter Byrne/PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

A strike by more than 40,000 workers at Network Rail and 14 train operating companies will go ahead next Wednesday after no breakthrough in talks, the RMT union announced on Friday.

The strike will hit most of London’s major train operators including Greater Anglia, LNER, Great Western Railway, South Eastern, Avanti West Coast, and GTR (including Gatwick Express).

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