PYJAMA-CLAD families are protesting against the train crisis to show how commuters miss out on seeing their children off to bed.

Crowds of parents and children have gathered at Lewes Station this evening in solidarity with workers stuck on trains who get home so late that their loved ones are already tucked up in bed at home.

Many are standing with homemade banners airing their frustration at problems on the train network with a giant bed as a focal point.

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Organisers said the protest was carried out to highlight how often delays on the Southern Railway network, owned by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), robbed commuters of entire evenings they had planned to spend with their families.

Organiser Emily Clarke, a teacher and mother-of-two, said: "We demand better treatment of passengers, an end to overcrowded carriages and for Southern to reinstate the half-hourly timetable for Seaford and Newhaven."

GTR reduced its daytime timetable to Seaford as part of a plan to combat ongoing staffing problems.

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The protest follows a two-day strike by the RMT union last week and the launch of a crowdfunding campaign by the Association of British Commuters to take the government to court over its handling of the Southern crisis.

Southern has apologised to its passengers for the "poor level of performance" since "the start of the RMT union dispute".

Visit crowdjustice.co.uk/case/southernrail for details of the crowdfunder.

For the full report, see tomorrow's edition of The Argus