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They'll have an extra 38 services a day to run then, so the number of cancellations may get worse.

Aren't there also 38 Avanti services already removed from the timetable for over the summer? So the 56 cancellations today is effectively 94 services they're not operating compared to the full timetable. Then there's the many partial cancellations on top of that, such as 0800 Glasgow to Euston...

The length of the LNER dispute is irrelevant. The fact it's unrelated to the national dispute only backs up my original point. Where's the incentive for the Government to settle a future dispute about pay if the perception in Westminster becomes that ASLEF or the RMT will just find something...

It's almost as if the Government wanted to agree a deal with the union that can bring train services to a complete halt but are indifferent about offering a similar deal to a union that can't. Perhaps ASLEF's monumental blunder of announcing 22 days of strike action on LNER has also made the...

Getting to and from the Edinburgh festivals is going to be fun.

Folk who want to work from home will be delighted. The drivers will lose a day's pay. No one else will care less.

Probably like recent Saturdays without rest day working with 30-60 cancellations and plenty more partial cancellations.

If the aim is to keep the dispute in the public eye then ASLEF have failed miserably. It rarely even gets a mention on news programmes or in the press anymore. There'll be a few token articles today announcing the action with the copy-and-paste comments from both sides. It's beyond pointless...

Around 60 cancellations last Saturday, 30 on Monday, plus all the partial cancellations. Sunday seems the only day they run close to a full service.

It's quite an achievement for ASLEF. They keep highlighting in their press releases how they've failed to secure a pay rise for some of their members for five years. Now they're losing their ability to bring the rail network to a standstill too. The five-day tantrum on LNER in February doesn't...

Except the Government don't need to do that. They've told ASLEF what the offer is. ASLEF have rejected it without balloting their members on the offer and 'stubbornly insisted', to coin your phrase, on a no-strings pay deal. Or does intransigence only work one way in this dispute?

How many regular travellers have you interviewed to make such a claim?

It's a "whole week of disruption" in name only in terms of actual strike dates. Take the North West, for example. The TPE and Northern strike day on the Wednesday aside, the rest of the strike days are going to be completely irrelevant for most people in that region, though of course the...

This strategy worked so well in December, I'm sure it will achieve a similar level of success this time round. It seems that ASLEF have either run out of ideas or just given up.

There is no coach G on the nine car trains.