Aslef members who work on cross-border rail services will walk out on September 1 and will ban overtime on September 2.
Train drivers on services between Scotland and England will strike next month in a long-running dispute over pay.
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan said: “We don’t want to take this action but the train companies, and the Government which stands behind them, have forced us into this place because they refuse to sit down and talk to us and have not made a fair and sensible pay offer to train drivers who have not had one for four years – since 2019 – while prices have soared in that time by more than 12%.
“This shows how the contempt in which the companies, and the government, hold passengers and staff and public transport in Britain.
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