bramling
Veteran Member
Not sure about ECML, but they DIDN'T advise that this morning on the WCML. A full morning peak was run, which is very daft if you don't expect to get them home. Others thinned all day. WCML infrastructure itself holding up very well, touch wood.
On my way in I was musing as to whether an emergency timetable might have been considered. GTR seem to have sort of done that, with modifications having been input from the late morning onwards. Clearly events massively overtook this pre-planning.
Perhaps the ideal might have been to have had a managed transition to emergency timetable after the morning peak. But we’d probably then be reading on here posts suggesting the railway had “thrown in the towel” et cetera.
Damned if one does and damned if one doesn’t springs to mind.