"Jock Mackirdy" wrote in message
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In article , James wrote:

I remember that day well. My 2-car 158 from Leicester to Birmingham
was absolutely crush loaded.

Are you saying that MML services were blocked back as far north as
Leicester? There must be more
signal sections between Leicester and Bedford than the total number of
trains in the MML fleet.

Presumably passengers were told that if they travelled towards St Pancras
they'd get stranded at Bedford, so were advised to travel via Nuneaton and
WCML.
Peter