MORE than a tenth of underpaid cleaners across Britain’s rail network are having to use foodbanks to survive, a shocking survey published today reveals.

Transport union RMT said its poll of 1,000 outsourced workers also shows that 28 per cent have skipped meals and a third are relying on credit cards to cope amid soaring inflation.

Nearly two-thirds have been forced to cut their use of heating and hot water after Tory ministers froze energy costs at a record average annual high of £2,500.