The bank holiday rail strike has been cancelled after unions including the RMT and the TSSA suspended their plans.

The rail strikes, planned to start on Monday at 5pm, were suspended this afternoon.

The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport workers (RMT) were the two unions behind the planned 24 hour industrial action in disputes over pay.

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South West Trains confirmed a Saturday service will be in place for Monday and a normal weekday service for Tuesday.

Southern said it would run a normal Bank Holiday Monday service and a normal Tuesday service.

Mark Carne, Network Rail chief executive, said: "We welcome this news and the constructive discussions that we’ve been having since Monday with all our trade unions to avert a strike and reach an amicable solution."

Manuel Cortes, General Secretary of the TSSA, said: "Our negotiating team at ACAS has received a revised offer from Network Rail.

“As a result of this, they have suspended the planned industrial action, pending the outcome of a meeting of our workplace representatives next week."

Mick Cash, General Secretary of the RMT confirmed that the union had "decided to suspend all industrial action which had been scheduled to take place on Monday 25th May and Tuesday 26th May 2015.”