Britain faces its biggest railway strike in decades on Saturday, with tens of thousands of workers in three trade unions stopping work over disputes about wages and job security.

This is the latest strike in a year that has seen widespread industrial unrest in Britain, involving transport workers, postal workers, and lawyers after the rise in living costs outpaced wage increases.

With inflation reaching its highest level in 40 years at around ten percent, trade unions say that the wage offers for their workers amount to real wage cuts.

In total, more than fifty thousand railway workers represented by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, the train drivers and engineers union, and the transport and travel industries union will strike on Saturday for 24 hours in a strike that will affect 14 train operating companies in addition to "Network Rail", which owns the train infrastructure.

"Network Rail" said that only about 11 percent of train services will operate this Saturday and that there will be no trains at all in some parts of the country.