On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:49:46 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:05:06 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 21:32:30 on
Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Recliner remarked:

I wonder how it coped when last night's ceremony (predictably)
over-ran?

What happened to the late night trains from London (eg the last extra
train to Derby from St Pancras is at 00:30), did people miss them and
have to sleep at the station?

Not that it would have been sensible to plan on using those services
after a late evening event anyway.

There was an endless flurry of tweets from National Rail telling
people that last trains with a whole pile of operators running from
London terminals were held for 20-30 minutes so that people caught
their trains home. It was an admirable effort and showed that
flexibility had been designed into the arrangements.

That's good to hear. It would have been a pity if people who'd enjoyed
the fantastic opening ceremony then had a nightmare journey home.