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With tens of thousands of workers walking out, causing major disruption across the network and leaving major stations deserted as trains stand cancelled, Great Britain is facing the biggest rail strikes in three decades. The strike started Monday night as the workers’ unions and the government refused to budge from the respective stands in a row over pay freezes and …