The same thing happened when the Tall Ships were on the Mersey in 2008, most of Northern trains are two car units and there was standing room only on most services during the 'sailaway day'. In contrast Merseyrail strengthed their day services from 3 car to 6 car on the routes that most pax would be using and ran them every 15 minutes with plenty of staff at all stations along the way. Even so all seats were taken and passageways crowded.
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