Taking the strain

Passengers aboard the first new Caledonian Sleeper train arrived three and a half hours late on Monday because of signalling and locomotive problems.

We should be pushing for legislation that forces [the train companies] to display that the system is running well and performing on time and prosecute them if it is ever wrong.

Ben Kerr So in reality they got a free trip to London as it will be refunded, nice lie in and a free journey – and the problem is?

Murray Waterston Who cares. I’ll be happy to be delayed when I travel on it. Roll on autumn.

George Malik They may be state-of-the-art trains, but the same certainly can’t be said for the signalling system.

Steven Oliver Does absolutely nothing work properly in this country?

Colin Worthington