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Yeah true - but from a business point of view, it's not easy to have staff all ready to go on the off chance there was going to be a game. You really need to commit to paying say 8-10 extra staff in advance for an evening's overtime when the likelihood was they wouldn't be needed. As it was I...

Simply the lack of preparation time. I think contingencies could have been in place earlier but it was never an easy ask to have additional guards, drivers, rolling stock, platform staff etc all ready to go in four days.

Doesn't really matter whether you "buy" that there's not enough coaches cos it's a fact. And this is proved by the fact that there are plenty of longer coaches put on on Saturdays when they are available. If you're seriously suggesting that Southern should buy a load more coaches at a cost of...

It really is a combination of factors. The stewarding has to be better at both Falmer and Brighton but so many problems on the railways are caused by bone headed people - the stampede last night seemingly being a case in point. If both authorities and public used a bit more common sense the...