The chairman of Network Rail, Sir Peter Hendy, has told MPs the Football Association was given two years’ notice of the closure of the West Coast main line over Easter – yet the FA scheduled a key cup match at Wembley.
The FA Cup semi-final between Manchester City and Liverpool is scheduled to take place over the weekend of 16 and 17 April. No trains will run on the southern part of the main line from both cities to London Euston, due to long-planned engineering work.
