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Train drivers get behind Tube line strike

TRAIN drivers showed “massive support” for a strike that threw central London into turmoil yesterday.

Aslef members on the Central and Waterloo and City lines walked out in protest against “management’s refusal to treat drivers with respect.”

The union’s district organiser Finn Brennan said: “Not a single Aslef driver went to work on the Central line.”

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