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It is many years since one-person operation of trains was introduced. The combination in the early 1980s, following the electrification of the line from St Pancras to Bedford, indicated that all was not well with this habit of destaffing stations and having only a driver locked in a cab on the train. Groups of young men went through the train, robbing passengers with impunity because there were no other members of staff around. The situation had to be changed because of that.