Hundreds of thousands of passengers face a month of disruption from today as rail workers begin the longest strike against a major rail company in living memory. Click here to read the full story.

South Western Railway workers will walk out for 27 days until New Year’s Day in a long-running dispute over guards on trains.

Passengers have been warned only around half of services will run, including those to and from London Waterloo, the country’s busiest railway station.

Services will be cancelled, replaced by buses or finish earlier than normal, while trains that do run are expected to be busier than normal.

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