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No rail services for key cities on strike days

The Times
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Bristol, Bath, Reading, Plymouth and Portsmouth will be among many stations which will have no South West Trains (SWT) services running on Friday 8 and Monday 11 September if planned strikes by the ASLEF and RMT rail unions go ahead.

More than 50 stations will have no rail services on the two strike days although SWT says that it will run around a fifth of the train services it normally operates plus a number of replacement bus services. Details of the services that will run can be seen here.

The strikes, called by the unions because SWT managers drove trains during previous industrial action, will run for 24 hours from midnight on both days. However, further talks between the unions and SWT management will take place today to try to avert the strikes.