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Southern Rail strikes spark MORE chaos as firm tells passengers not to travel tomorrow despite today’s appeal against action

The train company has told commuters not to try and board trains, regardless of the appeal outcome

SOUTHERN Railways have advised passengers NOT to travel tomorrow - despite a Court of Appeal hearing on strike action today.

The train company has told commuters not to try and board trains, regardless of the appeal outcome.

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Southern Rail has told passengers not to travel tomorrow despite an appeal against strikes todayCredit: PA:Press Association

It comes as a Court of Appeal hearing is set to try and obtain an injunction against the drivers' strikes, set to begin at midnight.

Southern says as the court's decision will be announced later this afternoon, it will be too late to get trains and drivers in the correct position for tomorrow.

It said any services it can run will be extremely limited.

For this reason, passengers are still advised not to travel.

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Angie Doll, Passenger Services Director for Southern, said:  "We hope for the sake of our passengers our application to the Court of Appeal is successful. Even if we are able to stop the strikes through the court, services will still be very heavily  impacted tomorrow. We will work through the night to try and provide as many services as possible, but we are still advising passengers not to travel as we will not be able to offer a robust service they can rely on.
"We are sorry but the industrial action by ASLEF leaves us no viable alternative, but be assured we will do all we can overnight."
Drivers are set to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday and on Friday in a dispute over driver-only trains.

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