Sadly railway passengers don't have perfect knowledge on such matters.
Problem is the 2 car train is normally full and standing leaving Chesterfield and not many leisure passengers alight at Sheffield, most continue to Manchester or Liverpool.
I'm sure the train landlords could find some money somewhere to do such a thing!
My learned experience in 1st/2nd year of uni was to simply avoid travelling back as much as possible...
Sounds like EMR making excuses!
According to the website it was four all day - no idea why but presumably something on in Matlock. Amazing how EMR can find units sometimes but not others (no doubt someone will say irs because of the Sunday strikes reducing the need elsewhere - don’t even get me started on EMR’s dismal failure to get that sorted out after months…)
There was a list of overworked / shortformed services issued to signal boxes today, across many routes.
I think it's happened about twice, it really is quite uncommon. Once when the Queen went up there on a service train and I think once during shortages. If they get sent anywhere it's usually Crewe, but even that less so now those trains run through to Newark.
I (driver) did exactly the same recently. Not all standing passengers, but everyone in the front and rear vestibules. In an emergency, that's my escape route, and if either the guard or I need to get down onto the line, we need to be safely open the external door in the vestibule, and then actually get to it, without passengers falling out. Our top priority as traincrew is safety.
Without wishing to go too off topic, yes, 222s are banned to Matlock and the only "Intercity" stock that went that way were the MML 170s when the branch had a direct service to London. One of the reasons that service was withdrawn was because the 222s couldn't go up the branch. As for HSTs, only a single one (as far as I know) has gone up there as part of a special event with Peak Rail
) and another was a desperation move due to shortages. Lucky you didn't work Pacers on the Cardiff Valleys then. Sometimes the guard could not get back to the cab after shutting the doors!
I can’t see an 08:43 Liverpool-Norwich. Do you mean Manchester?
These EMR trains are so busy because they provide an important link between some of the country’s largest cities. Two carriages between Nottingham, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool is absolute an joke especially on a Saturday morning. This particular train on a Saturday morning has been short formed for a number of weeks now and has been leaving passengers behind at a number of stations.
