Short formed London Overground 07/04/24

[DJS76]

I'm attending the Spurs game this evening and have noticed that they are warning people that London Overground services from White Hart Lane after the match will only be formed of 4 carriages. They are always 8 carriages on match days, and most other times I believe.
Does anyone know the reason why these trains are short formed today? I know there are engineering works on other parts of the Overground but surely this shouldn't affect this line.

 

[Triumph]

All the Sunday diagrams are booked to be 4 cars only, however today all the spare stock at Chingford is being used to double up, but with 6 units booked to stable at Ilford Depot over the weekend a few of the diagrams will be 4 car only. Most will be 8.

 

[BJames]

Was just wondering (may be nothing to do with this) whether this has anything to do with the fact that the match was moved at (relatively) late notice from the Monday to the Sunday? So there wasn't enough time to sort out lengthening of units, additional trains from Ilford etc? It had been planned in for Monday evening and the Monday extra service still ran, for example: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:F33493/2024-04-08/detailed

Agree that it's far from ideal, no extra services and 4 cars after the match is an absolute nightmare - hope it all went ok.

Also some running pretty early? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:L02316/2024-04-07/detailed (3-4 minutes early. I appreciate that there was added stopping time at Seven Sisters and White Hart Lane but this seems quite significant for local LO services that continue to run at every 15-30 mins depending on where you're going)

 

[30907]

Also some running pretty early? https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:L02316/2024-04-07/detailed (3-4 minutes early. I appreciate that there was added stopping time at Seven Sisters and White Hart Lane but this seems quite significant for local LO services that continue to run at every 15-30 mins depending on where you're going)

Advertising the revised times (other than at destination, perhaps) is daft - people are creatures of habit, and it's setting the crew up to overlook the change. Fortunately passengers are also creatures of habit and are likely to turn up for the interval times