The Guardian - Four days of action are planned just as a new rail timetable, with hundreds more trains, is set to come into effectRail passengers have been asked to check schedules carefully this week, as new timetables, with extra services, are to be introduced on Sunday and Monday almost coinciding with four days of strikes that from Tuesday will stop 80 of trains across Britain.Only the most optimistic gambler, or a train operator forced to promise rapid improvements, would have staked much on things suddenly coming right for the railways on a freezing winter weekend. Yet the advent of a new timetable,...
