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Passengers are being urged to only travel by rail if necessary during a fresh wave of strikes in the long running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) are taking industrial action again, threatening more travel chaos across the country.
Rail companies are warning that only about one in five services will run on November 5, 7 and 9 while in some areas there will be no trains.
A special timetable will be published next week but passengers are being told that trains will start later and finish much earlier than usual on strike days.