UK hit by latest rail strikes

A photograph shows closed train ticket barriers and an announcement board warning that all trains from the station are cancelled, at Charing Cross train station, in London, as fresh railway strikes hit the country. (Photo: AFP)

Football fans and holidaymakers faced travel woe Saturday as train drivers walked out across the United Kingdom, the latest in a series of industrial strikes amid spiralling inflation.

Members of the Aslef union at nine train companies are staging a 24-hour strike over pay and working conditions, bringing large parts of the network to a standstill, with no service in some areas of the country.