But when the rail strike began early Thursday, he took center stage.

Last year a rail strike lasted just a few hours.

Hearing of the rail strike, I had called ahead for a rental car.

Thousands of commuters once again decided to stay at home rather than try to beat the rail strike.

A12 New York transit officials made plans to deal with a rail strike.

The longest recent national rail strike, in 1982, was ended when Congress imposed a settlement after four days.

It wasn't that several thousand other people had figured the best way to beat the rail strike was to rent a car.

The emergency provision is designed for rail strikes and things of that nature."

President Bush yesterday urged Congress to stop any rail strike on the day it began.

The French rail strike continued as workers rejected Government proposals to end it.

In 1962, a rail strike caused the growers to look for alternative transport and the service ended shortly after.

They are being operated in an effort to maintain the line's tracks during the rail strike, which is in its second week.

The first nationwide rail strike in nearly a decade was called after freight lines and unions ended talks.

The two-day rail strike was responsible for a steep drop in coal output.

The judge seemed unimpressed by the argument that a rail strike would cause 'enormous public inconvenience'.

The elections were also partly overshadowed by a burgeoning rail strike, the first major workers' challenge to the government's economic policy.

The computerized system here was not supposed to be in full use until spring, but the state has pressed it into action during the rail strike.

A nationwide rail strike occurred in April 1991.

He appeared to the enjoy the adulation, in fact By that weekend, just prior to the funeral service, the rail strike was all but over.

Indeed Sears points to £6.3m worth of special factors, such as the rail strike, accounting for almost half the profits set-back.

During the national rail strike of 1923 the corps again volunteered to the Virginia Governor for active military service.

Travel conditions in France were compounded by an ongoing rail strike affecting long-distance trains.

The opening of Euro Disneyland is likely to be disrupted by a rail strike.

However, sugar interests feared that rail strikes might interfere with production and road haulage to the port was preferred.

The rail strike encapsulated the social tensions that surround this country's ambitious program for creating a free-market economy.