I now realise why yesterday people were stood on New Malden station expecting 10 carriages, the 7.35 Guildford to Waterloo via Cobham, is usually 10 carriages.
There was no announcement about it being short formed Therefore I assume it was digrammeed in to be 8 carriages. Unfortunately passengers are not mind readers and don't get to see the diagrams.
If the train leaves at the same time as normal and less services are running, they would expect it to be the same number of cattiages
After all with less services running, you'd expect them to want to provide the same amount or, if possible, more carriages on each service, not less.
Maybe other services were more deserving and they don't have enough to go round, which I doubt.
Still this is the railways. I imagine once a diagram with 8 carriages is set in place, it's difficult for staff to know what it is normally, as there are hundreds of trains. I can't imagine there would be software to aid them in knowing this, as that would be helpful to them. End of cynicism
There was no announcement about it being short formed Therefore I assume it was digrammeed in to be 8 carriages. Unfortunately passengers are not mind readers and don't get to see the diagrams.
If the train leaves at the same time as normal and less services are running, they would expect it to be the same number of cattiages
After all with less services running, you'd expect them to want to provide the same amount or, if possible, more carriages on each service, not less.
Maybe other services were more deserving and they don't have enough to go round, which I doubt.
Still this is the railways. I imagine once a diagram with 8 carriages is set in place, it's difficult for staff to know what it is normally, as there are hundreds of trains. I can't imagine there would be software to aid them in knowing this, as that would be helpful to them. End of cynicism