I took the 18:48 Leicester - Birmingham yesterday evening...thought XC did a decent enough job. TM made lots of announcements and walked through train to check everyone understood what was going to happen at Coleshill where services were terminating.
There were at least 4 units parked up at Leicester, in the sidings and P1, so a little surprised the locals couldn't run even if only to Nuneaton / Coleshill. At the Coleshill end, there were 5 coaches in the car park to head to International. Looked like trains were arriving on P2, going ECS to Water Orton and then departing from P1 at Coleshill.
Only criticism was the on board advice to take the No. 70 bus to Birmingham...this takes 45mins, only runs once per hour after 7pm and calls on Priory Queensway, the other side of the city centre to New Street...hopefully staff on the ground at Coleshill were sending people via International.
Appears the locals have been canned again today...hopefully trains will be 5 car between Brum and Leicester at least in the peaks - again not sure why services couldn't terminate at Coleshill or Nuneaton given the paths and units exist.