Atrocities recalled

old carriages with substandard suspension for a small gauge line, the frequent go-slow areas of the track, the unprotected rail crossings, insufficient double tracked areas for passing, two lengthy changes of locomotive in the same journey, failures of systems and an obstruction on the line and then a lengthy wait for bus shuttle transport.

Ultimately, there appears to be an unwillingness for Kiwirail to whole-heartedly participate in the future and to invest in the best.

With those issues resolved Kiwirail could shed four hours off the Auckland to Wellington journey each and every day; no need to cut any stations – in fact, why not add a few and stop for a picnic? RICHARD HOWARD Waitomo pay off the $450,000 debt and stick to core activities only. D BLAKE Hamilton The recent ‘‘glitch’’ at a Christchurch crematorium, producing an ‘‘unpleasant stench’’, gives us a mini-echo of the horrific atrocities that the Nazis perpetrated on millions of ‘‘rejected people’’.

Multiply this recent glitch by many millions of bodies burnt in ovens, without the advantage of today’s technology for controlling output of stench, with many more noses to register its presence, causing a terrible picture of destruction amongst large sections of humanity to be revealed as an event unable to be dismissed as a myth by the revisionists. GLYWN MCINNES Hamilton