I'd be happy to believe that, but given the context of what was being spoken about (i.e. the carnage at the station after the Preston Park gig), her statement is, at best, ambiguous or, more cynically, misleading.
The other issue is that, a statement saying 15 trains were made available doesn't...
Having asked the commuters' group (laden with timetable nerds), this is what they said...
"I looked on real time trains for last Saturday night which records all trains, there were two extra trains between 10pm - 0004 to London, and one to Three bridges and one to Gatwick. After 0004 there were...
The main reason we're only just coping is because of the ongoing, systematic and deliberate incompetence of GTR. It's clearly beyond their capabilities to run a coherent service - and this, remember, is all being done in order to break the unions.
A well-run train service through summer will...
If you can find it - great.
Successive councils, transport consultants and other interested parties have tried for yonks to find the appropriate place to put one. With - as we all know - no success.
Keep up yourself luvvie. You blame the authorities for a lack of preparation, yet some skips were hardly used, and by not mentioning them, appear to exonerate the party-goers themselves.
I can't help it if you didn't see those skips you evidently went looking all over town for, but couldn't find.
From the BBC website, Angie Doll, in classic gibberish mode, contradicting herself within two sentences...
GTR spokeswoman Angie Doll said: "We had standby trains. We had an additional 15 trains available."
She said: "When we do events like this, we advertise the trains that are in the public...
And in response, the Police have issued a thinly veiled criticism of Southern...
https://www.sussex.police.uk/news/brighton-and-hove-pride-response-to-policing-at-brighton-railway-station/