Vet Jenna Blackburn's usual commute is Chester to Manchester, changing at Warrington, often on Northern.

But she regularly gets stuck in Warrington when trains are delayed or cancelled and has to get a taxi home.

"Financially it's a lot," she said. "You're coming to work to make money and you can spend more than your day's wage to get home."

She is one of many facing disruption, with train cancellations at the highest level since records began in 2015.

Newly released data from the Office of Road and Rail shows 3.8% of trains in Great Britain have been cancelled in the year up to 12 November - or one in every 26.

"On a semi-regular basis I'm getting home at nine o'clock at night," Ms Blackburn said.

She doesn't drive and said a taxi home from Warrington to Chester usually costs between £30 and £40, depending on the time. But on strike days taxi prices are higher. Ms Blackburn said she once paid more than £160 for a taxi when she needed to get to and from work urgently.

"Emotionally it's exhausting, to constantly have to look at the train times every single day. And hope I'm not going to be stranded," she said.