Rail customers travelling between Scotland and England are to face travel disruption this weekend amid staff strikes.
The rail operator said it would run a reduced service between the stations on Saturday. The first train from London to Edinburgh will run at 7.30am and the last one at 4pm. Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, a union that represents train drivers, said: “Train drivers are fed up with the bad faith shown by this company, probably at the behest of the transport secretary, Mark Harper, and the rail minister, Huw Merriman, and we are not prepared to put up with being bullied and pushed about by a company that thinks it can break agreements whenever it feels like it.
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