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What if nobody wanted to do overtime ? Maybe they wanted to go to the match too

BR carried a much more intensive service and the depot at Brighton included all types of traction and work before privatisation, it was the splitting up of everything that has made the chaos and the beancounters who insist on the minimum number of crew and stock needed as well as the tightest of...

Or Southern profits wouldn't be so big, of course if the railways were run to the benefit of the passenger and not shareholder it would happen. Under BR there was sufficient spare stock and crew to cover things that happened like this

Or as I explained earlier if there were adequate spare stock and crew available then trains would be stepped up and no or just minimal disruption for the punters

Yes but if a train is delayed and the stock and crew are displaced there is no spare stock and crew to make the next run hence the gap in services, in the past in BR days someone would run up to the sidings grab a train and bring it out to replace the delayed stock and then no gap or backlog

Southern exists to make profits , there is none in the football traffic so that's why the service is not what it could. Obviously if the railways had been renationalised then you would have the spare crews and stock to step up services last night at short notice.