Some rail operators are running no services as 6,500 train drivers walk out in pay dispute.
Phoebe Clifford, 20, was planning to travel by train from her home in Canterbury to London for a Rex Orange County gig on Saturday with her boyfriend.
Phoebe said she had been affected by every single train strike this year but still had sympathy for the workers and felt they deserved better pay.One of his chefs normally travels to work from London by train but no services are running on Saturday. Season ticket holders who choose not to travel can claim compensation through the delay repay scheme.
Mr Whelan pointed out there was also industrial action taking place in a number of other industries. "There is a summer of solidarity coming - not a summer of discontent - where everybody is making their views known to the government," he said. The union leader has joined a picket line at Willesden Junction in north-west London, where he was joined by Labour MPs Barry Gardiner and Dawn Butler.
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