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Today, I witnessed a strange working in Crewe station - something I have never witnessed at any station, by any operator, ever, but unsurprisingly the operator in question was Avanti
At around noon, 1M09 Glasgow Central to London (see: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C27687/2024-02-23/detailed#allox_id=0) Euston makes an unadvertised call on Platform 6. Meanwhile, 1H69 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly (See: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C27666/2024-02-23/detailed#allox_id=0) calls on Platform 11. The London bound service, already roughly 20 minutes behind schedule emptied out and caused swathes of people who (without my own realisation) where ushered on to the Manchester bound service renamed ‘An additional Avanti service’. The 11-car service after being emptied out on to the platform and helped by a solitary member of station staff shouting out the new platform numbers for each new service and both services after standing for a while longer reverse to their respective new destinations of Manchester and London.
Is this commonplace at Crewe or similar stations nowadays? Is the cause of this maintenance (thats what I immediately thought) or staffing? I have tried to find reasons for this - either way it is yet another incompetence of AWC and a huge disruption to the passengers of both trains, many of whom on the 11-car service were left standing in aisles after being moved on to a 9-car service. If anyone knows anything about this it would be greatly appreciated.
Today, I witnessed a strange working in Crewe station - something I have never witnessed at any station, by any operator, ever, but unsurprisingly the operator in question was Avanti
At around noon, 1M09 Glasgow Central to London (see: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C27687/2024-02-23/detailed#allox_id=0) Euston makes an unadvertised call on Platform 6. Meanwhile, 1H69 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly (See: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:C27666/2024-02-23/detailed#allox_id=0) calls on Platform 11. The London bound service, already roughly 20 minutes behind schedule emptied out and caused swathes of people who (without my own realisation) where ushered on to the Manchester bound service renamed ‘An additional Avanti service’. The 11-car service after being emptied out on to the platform and helped by a solitary member of station staff shouting out the new platform numbers for each new service and both services after standing for a while longer reverse to their respective new destinations of Manchester and London.
Is this commonplace at Crewe or similar stations nowadays? Is the cause of this maintenance (thats what I immediately thought) or staffing? I have tried to find reasons for this - either way it is yet another incompetence of AWC and a huge disruption to the passengers of both trains, many of whom on the 11-car service were left standing in aisles after being moved on to a 9-car service. If anyone knows anything about this it would be greatly appreciated.