Any such strike will see travel chaos over the coming Easter holiday period not only for rail travelers but road users too as train passengers switch to car and coach.
The strike, claim union leaders, is not about pay but more about working practices which workers feel put the safety of passengers at risk.
"No matter how they try to spin it, the maintenance cuts and the changes to safety practices involving signallers will leave the senior management at Network Rail with blood on their hands in the event of another Hatfield or Potters Bar"
This said the fact that the RMT want to make train drivers and crew work on Sundays without extra pay and the threat of 1,500 redundancies built into Network Rail forward plans are also factors in any strike vote.
Network Rail say that any strike will only cause minimum disruption but many will already be looking to find alternative transport or just stay at home over the bank holiday period.
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