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Since 2011 annual fare rises have been between 2.5% and 6%.
The week-long strike comes shortly before annual fare rises are revealed.
Network Rail's group strategy director, Paul Plummer, said it was assuming annual fare rises would stay at RPI plus 1%.
These unbudgeted surpluses are over 41% of actual fare revenues last year and over 23% of next year's estimated annual fare revenues.
Labour's plans are broadly to cap annual fare rises, to simplify fare structures and to allow state-run companies to bid for franchises to run trains along Britain's tracks.
He added that altering the annual fare formula was a matter for ministers and that if a government wanted to make changes it would need to increase the annual public subsidy to the railways.
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Unite national officer Tony Murphy said passengers had been "hammered by the annual fares rip-off" and accused the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, of using the rail network as "a political football".
Creagh said Labour would cap annual fares on every route by abolishing the flex, and further ease the financial pressure on passengers by passing on savings from a planned package of railway reforms, which she described as the most radical since privatisation.
Others have seen their annual fares rise despite average pay having fallen.
July's RPI is used to set annual regulated fare rises, such as for season tickets.
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