Rail strikes: trains halted as passengers face weekend of disruption
by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent from on (#6BPMV)
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Rail services across Britain will be severely disrupted on Friday as train drivers stage the first of the latest wave of planned strikes in a long-running pay dispute.
Members of the drivers' union Aslef will strike for 24 hours across virtually all the big passenger operators in England, stopping some major intercity and commuter services entirely.
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