(05 May 2014, 5:52 pm)tyresmoke wrote To be fair the engineering works are booked well in advance, they didn't know Gateshead were to make the final. I guess it could have been any two clubs in the Conference at the time, not necessarily on the ECML!
I know there booked well in advance, the same seems to happen on the WCML when North West teams are at Wembley there is always something going on the railway