Travellers have been advised to avoid the rail network on what is the fifth day of industrial action.
Due to the strike by the RMT union, as little as 20 per cent of normal services are running on Saturday with many starting later and finishing earlier.
In order to halt the walkouts, train drivers have been offered a pay rise of eight per cent over two years.
The Rail Delivery Group said it was offering a “landmark outline proposal” that would deliver more reliable services for passengers, in exchange for a back-dated pay increase of 4 per cent for 2022 and 4 per cent for this year.
In response, RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said: “While the Secretary of State and the Rail Delivery Group spin about the need for reform to fund pay rises, the truth is that the money was always there but it’s being salted away by a gang of profiteers and their mates in the Government.
“It’s outrageous that the interests of workers, passengers and the taxpaying public are all sacrificed to the greed of a handful of private transport companies who are being guaranteed profits when they can’t run a railway even when we’re not on strike.”
