UPDATE: The planned rail strike on Bank Holiday Monday has now been cancelled.
It’s not often that we at nationalrail.com would advocate not travelling by rail, but next Monday/Tuesday, 25th-26th May could be one of those occasions.
This is because Network Rail staff are to stage a 24-hour strike on 25 May in a row over pay, in a walkout that experts are predicting could cause chaos for passengers travelling on the bank holiday. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will walk out from 5pm on Monday.
The workers, including signallers and maintenance staff, will also ban overtime for 48 hours on the bank holiday Monday and Tuesday, according to the Press Association.
The move comes after RMT members voted for strikes at 4-1, well above a planned threshold for ballots proposed by the Government.
Workers are striking after the union rejected a four-year deal offered by Network Rail worth £500 this year and three years of increases matching RPI inflation as well as a no compulsory redundancy commitment to December 2016 for nearly 16,000 staff.
We are all hoping the services will be back to normal as quickly as possible next week. In the meantime, for train tickets at all other times, check out our home page.
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