Rotten railway

I HAVE always found rail to be a rotten and unreliable form of transport, and during my working life I gave up on trains for any important appointment.

For a while I used the Edinburgh to London service, and it was never once on time. In fact, the guard had a mobile phone for passengers to ring ahead and say how late they were going to be.

The trains – when they did arrive – were often filthy and the toilets indescribable. road is the answer. Always has been. Money spent on rail is wasted.

MALCOLM PARKIN, Kinnesswood,

Kinross-shire.