Southern Rail Asked Passengers To Tweet RMT Over Strikes, It Went Badly

3 October 2016, 11:40 | Updated: 3 October 2016, 14:39

Southern Rail train

Southern Rail attempted to hit back at the RMT over the train strikes which have hit their train lines - and it backfired badly.

- Southern Rail: How The Train Services Have Broken Down

Last week, the union announced a further set of five 48-hour strikes, which will cripple the service across the south.

Southern Rail, under fire after a huge rise in the number of cancelled and severely delayed trains, asked customers to tweet the RMT union to show them how they feel about the strikes.

But as a PR stunt, it did not go well.

Passengers turned on them, railing at the train company for the way that they are running their service.