Rail users in the region face fresh travel chaos today due to a long-running pay dispute.
Services across the Northwill be hit when members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union stage a 24 hour walkout against Arriva.
The union expects 700 conductors to support the strike - the latest in a series of stoppages in an increasingly bitter row over pay - but Arriva said it believed up to 100 conductors would work despite the industrial action.
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