You are right @yorksrob. The six-car 185s were only introduced just before the pandemic, and I don’t think people are used to them yet. I was the only person in coach 5 of the 1842 from Donny to Manchester today, yet people were crowding into the front. Of course, connecting passages (I cant think of a way to put this better) from one train to another would help, but that’s another discussion!
At sheffield, they announce that the train will come into platform 6A and everyone bunches up there, but the back of the train is in 6B