Should LNER passengers get their hopes up?
sir – London and North Eastern Railway – the rebranded East Coast franchise – has taken out advertisements to inform us that: “The name has changed to LNER but that will be the only difference you’ll notice.”
Oh dear. Such is the dynamism of a state-controlled rail service.
Steve Willis
Northampton
sir – You report (June 26) that transport officials have said that trains will have to run at a reduced speed because the hot weather will cause the rails to expand.
I have two questions: how do countries in southern Europe and further afield – where temperatures are routinely hotter than those in Britain – manage to run their trains? And, when HS2 is eventually built, and global warming leads to regular high temperatures here, what will the route then be called? LS2? Robin Nonhebel
Swanage, Dorset