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OK i now understand what you meant. And what you’re saying is a consequence of having a mixture of different length trains: by chance (and Sod’s Law) the short trains will often be the ones hitting the highest demand. Put on consistently long trains and everything’s fine.

Errrr, they’re the same trains. They go to Brighton and simply reverse out and go back to Eastbourne, Lewes or Seaford whence they came. The only exception would be if they happened to have some spare carriages at Brighton on the platform the train from Falmer is entering to link to before...

This is the right answer. Falmer, Brighton, Eastbourne and Seaford can all take eight carriage trains, and the club needs to manage their contract with the rail providers to ensure that they always run 8 carriage trains. No excuses. One of the sets on the Seaford service was only three...

There was a railway guy on the East platform showing an encouraging amount of common sense by spotting emptier front carriages and re-opened the gate to allow people to run up to the front and get on. What was bad was a crush at the gate where the abled queue objected to the number coming down...