They blame EMT, but isn't the timetable another problem created by the DfT (who made the VHF timetable!). Surely they should be getting all of the stick, even if EMT did propose these ideas, it would have had to have gone by the DfT who could have said no no no, so really there is no common sense anymore. Why not just have every EMT train going non stop from Sheffield to London and not actually serving the East Midlands
! Again, if the DfT had handed a local service franchise to another TOC (leaving EMT with the original MML franchise) they would speicically target local passengers/commuters and not look for airline competing express services.