In this investigation, the loss and delay Markovian queueing system with nopassing is proposed. The customers may balk or renege with certain probability, on finding all servers busy on their arrival. To cope up with the balking and reneging behaviour of the customers, there is provision of removable additional servers apart from permanent servers so as to provide the better grade of service at optimal cost operating conditions. The customers are classified into two classes depending upon whether they can wait or lost when all servers are busy. The customers can also be categorized into two classes from service point of view. Type A customers have zero service time whereas type B customers have exponential service time. The explicit expressions for the average number of customers in the system, the expected waiting time for both types of customers, etc., are derived by using steady-state queue size distribution. Some earlier results are deduced by setting appropriate system parameters. The system behaviour is examined with the help of numerical illustrations by varying different parameters. Scope and purpose The performance prediction of various systems in communication switching network, remote border security check post, jobs processing in computers, etc., are influenced by the customers behaviour, in particular, when nopassing constraints are prevalent. The incorporation of loss and delay phenomena is likely to bring about understanding whether the customers would like to wait in the queue or would be lost in case when all servers are busy. The provision of additional removable servers will be helpful in upgrading the service and to reduce the discouragement behaviour of the customers in such congestion situations.