Off the rails

There's too much non-productive winging in some letters.

It made my day when Eurostar trains in France had drastic speed restrictions similar to British trains due to fears that high temperatures might buckle railway lines.

Our train companies are often blamed for problems which are not their fault.

Today's companies, for the first time in more than half a century of government bungling with railway investment, have increased passenger and freight rail use to overcrowding.

It is the Government, wasting money on wars instead of enlarging the rail network, which is to blame, not the companies and certainly not the long-suffering staff who try to do their best while often being abused by passengers.

-John Stanaway, Hove