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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.

No carriages have been converted from first to standard on the nine cars.

When are those voting no in these ballots going to learn that the best way to get an outcome of no strikes is not to vote at all? Great work from every 'no' voter in nudging the percentage of returned ballot papers over the 50% threshold. What a Christmas gift for the Tories from the RMT. The...

Starmer has promised lots of things and backtracked on many of them. Scrapping plans to end the charitable status of private schools. Scrapping plans to end the two child limit for Universal Credit/Child Tax Credit. Scrapping plans to abolish tuition fees. Scrapping proposed income tax rises...

Avanti tweeting about mincemeat and frangipane tarts in first class while casually cancelling 36 trains tomorrow (not to mention the additional partial cancellations). Talk about tone deaf.

There's neither public anger nor support towards the strikes anymore. Just indifference. It's old news now and, much like the Government, most of the public couldn't care less.