Finsbury Park trespass incident 17th March

[rower40]

Just an observation really…
After I read about the above incident, I looked on OpenTrainTimes, and counted 23 trains in three different queues - Up Fast, Up Slow, and Up Hertford - at a stand with the front train only 30 or so minutes late. Just gives an idea of how full the southern end of the ECML is.

 

[Bayum]

But it’s also rush hour.

 

[zwk500]

According to the Timetable Planning Rules, trains can be 3 minutes apart on all lines in the area. 23 trains across 3 lines is 6 trains on 2 lines and 5 on the third, so it would only take a delay of about 15 minutes to stack that many trains up in consecutive blocks.