Train Drivers Mount Picket Lines Outside Railway Stations as Strikes Continue

Some areas of the country will have no services all day on Saturday.

Signage at Victoria in London station as train drivers from the Aslef union launch a wave of fresh walkouts in a long-running dispute over pay on April 5, 2024. Lucy North/PA Wire

Train drivers mounted picket lines outside railway stations on Saturday as strikes continued in a long-running pay dispute.

Aslef said the 22-month-long row had cost the industry £2 billion, much more than it would have cost to resolve the conflict.