Just what is it with The Argus that you cannot print a railway story without carping and muddled thinking - "Slimline new trains hit by trolley folly" (The Argus, September 11)?

Regarding the three-plus-two seating, I agree that, as in Thameslink trains, these seats are too small but to suggest this is the operator putting profit before comfort is fatuous.

If they took the extra seats out, the same number of people would no doubt board the trains but more would have to stand. Then The Argus would complain about lack of seats.

There is a lack of space for cyclists for the same reason - to provide space for them means fewer seats.

Blame the ever more interfering Health and Safety Executive for smaller luggage racks, not the train operators.

Voice of The Argus complained that older slam-door trains haven't had buffet cars for ten years or more. Is it really such an problem not to have a buffet car on journeys of less than an hour?

At least, after years of non-investment by the erstwhile nationalised industry (the Government), we are at last getting new trains out of the privatised industry.

The Argus motto appears to be: "Always looks on the dark side of life."

-David Cockram, Haywards Heath