LONDON: Rail workers started a five-day strike on Monday on services across southeast England, including commuter trains into London, causing major disruption on what could become the country’s longest rail walk-out since 1968.

The RMT union called the strike to protest plans to downgrade the role of the conductor on Southern Trains, causing cancellations across the network.

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