TRAIN drivers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a multi-year pay offer made by the new Labour government, ending a two-year dispute at 16 rail companies, their union said today.

Aslef said its members voted by 96 per cent in favour of a deal worth 15 per cent over three years and backdated to 2022, with a ballot turnout of 84 per cent.

The ballot result ends what Aslef called the longest train drivers’ strike in recent history, during which 13,000 drivers struck for 18 days.