TRAIN passengers in Warrington are facing more misery as unions confirmed strikes date will run until at least February 16.

Strikes on Northern trains to Manchester and Liverpool will take place on every Saturday for the next five weeks.

Members of the RMT union are gearing up for the 45th day of action tomorrow, Saturday.

Members are angry about 'attacks on the role of the safety-critical guard and the extension of driver only operation'.

They have now confirmed industrial action will be extended to include February 2, 9 and 16.

A strike has already been confirmed for January 26.

General secretary Mick Cash said: "“RMT continues to make every effort to get serious and meaningful talks going with Northern but the company are not interested and would prefer to fire off a barrage of misinformation about both the dispute and their intentions to deflect attention from the impact of their behaviour on the travelling public.

“German-owned Northern have made it perfectly clear in emails to staff that they want to run trains without a safety critical guard on board in a move that would wreck both safety and access ‎to services and they should listen to their front-line staff and pull back from that plan immediately. The bogus “guarantees” that they are trying to spin up to the travelling public are not worth the paper that they are printed on.

“We thank the public for their support and understanding throughout this dispute over rail safety and access and the union remains ready for genuine and serious talks.”