TORIES are “playing Fagin” in an underhand assault on rail workers’ pensions, union leaders warned yesterday.

The railway pension scheme is set to be streamlined into the new single state pension programme as part of the Con-Dem’s austerity agenda — meaning workers and hard-pressed pensioners will have to stump up even more in national insurance stamps.

The proposed increases range from £56 for a worker earning £12,000 a year to £448 for those earning £40,000 and above.