This sort of disruption management seems to have become a thing since COVID, I’ve never been a fan of it, it seems that before you’d be able to get ticket acceptance and use other companies, now they refuse to agree. Companies now just issue do not travel warning instead of trying to get stuff...
The loss of HST units without replacement means that I doubt they had anymore stock available, poor really. You can run 10 car on that line, and I was surprised to see that the 10:30 was only a 5 car.
The first thing to said, you can have a drink, but also you can get up walk around, buffet car, no one does the driving, generally quicker and don't have to find somewhere to park. Despite what is said, I'd say I've got a seat of 90% of the trains journey to away games this season, its normally...
Absolute car crash, the entire system buckling under the pressure of one line being closed, at some someone is going to wake up and realise we need longer trains and more services, but the only people who can invest in it to increase that are asleep at the wheel.