RAIL users' journeys will hit the buffers once again for 48 hours from tomorrow.
About 700 conductors of Arriva Trains Northern are walking out for the fifth consecutive month in their dispute with management over pay. The TransPennine Express, which runs through Preston, Blackburn, Accrington and Burnley, will be cancelled for the duration of the strike.
The conductors' RMT Union has been meeting with ATN management in London to try to resolve the dispute but both sides appear no nearer a resolution.
The RMT union wants a basic salary of £19,000 for conductors, nearly £3,000 more than Arriva's offer of a three per cent rise.
Conductors feel aggrieved because train drivers received an 18 per cent rise on April 1, taking their salary from £23,000 to £28,000.
ATN bosses said this move was to appease their drivers' dissatisfaction that other train companies paid more.
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