MichaelJP wrote:

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Perhaps someone in the know could answer this - given a blockage
between Doncaster and York why couldn't GNER simply route trains
around the problem by going Doncaster-Leeds-York and vice versa?

Most of GNER's trains are electric (IC225s and E*), with only a
handful of diseasels, which are needed to work the North of Scotland
services. There is no electrification between Leeds and York, other
than going via Doncaster - but that route was closed...

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