EMT and poor disruption running

[westcoaster]

So this morning at around 0730 a person was sadly hit by a train near Leicester. The line reopened after a few hours.

I've just gone to get a train to work at 1600, to find out although trains are running and on time EMT are not calling at Bedford or luton/Luton airport parkway due to service disruption. Trains heading north are arriving at Wellingborough 6 early and waiting for the booked departure time, same with southbound trains. Are they allowed to just cut station calls on on-time trains. And if so what is the justification in doing so.

 

[Dren Ahmeti]

Trains will run to stops as normally scheduled, with these services:
1P33 1639 Corby to London St Pancras
1B61 1612 Nottingham to London St Pancras.

 

[A0]

In the evening peak very few EMT services stop at Luton or Bedford in any case.

I assume the decision earlier on omitting Bedford and Luton was driven by trains being out of position and trying to recover the situation? They also commented that they'd only been able to run a limited service earlier in the day, so it might have been to prevent over-crowding - which Luton & Bedford stops do cause.

For either station, it's not like they were totally cut off - as they both have a fairly plentiful Thameslink service.

 

[Spartacus]

They've cut quite a lot of services out, which has resulted in the remaining ones being rather crowded according to EMT and they're omitting the stops in order to ease the overcrowding. That's according to them anyway. This hasn't been agreed with NR, and if it was up to NR they'd still be stopping, but there's little NR can do to make them: even if it was given red signals you can't force a guard to unlock the doors. EMT are getting the hit for the failures to stop though.

Even though, for a number of just reasons, the fatality took longer than normal to resolve, it's very questionable if EMT needed to cut their service so much (indeed the 1634 and 1734 departed from St Pancras were both still cancelled!), and I expect there to be some fallout from this. I believe the services running are now calling. I REALLY doubt if the situation would have developed this way had it been an EMT incident rather than a NR one.

Something makes me think they're taking the que from how VTEC used to regularly decline ticket acceptance during disruption due to claims of being too busy, but it hardly makes sense to your own passengers when the trains you are running are running on time. Heaven knows how anyone was meant to get north of Bedford from either station, or for anyone to get to them from the North. GTR were disrupted for much of the time too due to a unit fault.

 

[A0]

Heaven knows how anyone was meant to get north of Bedford from either station, or for anyone to get to them from the North. GTR were disrupted for much of the time too due to a unit fault.

EMT provided a coach replacement between Bedford and Wellingborough to provide connectivity.