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BATH, England, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Commuters who use Britain's First Great Western railway line staged a "strike" Monday to protest against packed, unreliable trains and rising prices.
At least 40 passengers showed up to the railway's Bath Spa station Monday with a special ticket reading "Worst Late Western" and "Route To Hell And Back," The Daily Mail reported.
First Great Western insisted the majority of the passengers who presented false vouchers had already bought a real ticket.
The commuters have also won support from the nations biggest railway union, the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers.
"First Great Western passengers have every right to feel short-changed by a company that proves that franchising cannot deliver the railway Britain needs," said its general secretary, Bob Crow.
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