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Rugby fans travelling by train to England's first autumn international at Twickenham on Saturday (November 3) could find their journey disrupted by strike action .

The RMT union is holding a 24-hour strike on South Western Railway's (SWR) network as part of a long-running dispute over the future role of train guards.

SWR plans to run around 50% of its normal Saturday services, including 12 trains per hour between Waterloo and Twickenham to help ferry fans to England's clash with South Africa.

However, the train operator has still urged fans to allow extra time for their journeys.

There will be no trains between Teddington and Shepperton, Surbiton and Hampton Court, Guildford and Aldershot or Barnes and Feltham or Whitton.

Replacement bus services will operate between Subiton and Guildford (via Effingham Junction), Leatherhead and Guildford, Weybridge and Virginia Water.

Trains between London and Chessington South will only operate between 9am and 8pm, with a replacement bus service running from Worcester Park to Chessington South outside those hours.

The Ascot to Alton line will also only have trains between 10am and 9pm, and will be served by a replacement bus for the rest of the day.

A spokesman for SWR said: "The RMT is cynically targeting sports fans and families and friends wanting to attend fireworks displays with this latest strike.

"We have guaranteed a guard to be rostered on every single service, and our growth plans mean more guards, not fewer."

The RMT claims that SWR's guarantee of rostering a guard on each service is not enough , as the company wants to be able to run services without guards if none is available (for instance due to delays elsewhere on the network).