Bernie Horrocks is quite right when she says the current gross overcrowding on South Central's Brighton-to-London trains is putting passengers in danger (The Argus, May 29).
I would go further and ask if the policy of packing passengers into three-carriage trains is in breach of health and safety regulations.
To offer only three coaches on a mid-morning, day-return train in the middle of the summer half-term holiday demonstrates an arrogant disregard for fare-paying customers.
Conditions aboard the 10.19am Brighton to Victoria train, on which I was unlucky enough to travel on Tuesday, May 27, were so cramped - more standing than seated - that a passenger fainted.
South Central's excuse for all this - that it is modifying depots to accommodate new trains - is simply pathetic.
Any well-managed company would have ensured its workshops were fitted out for new equipment well in advance of delivery.
And what on Earth is South Central saying when it "hopes" this is a short-term problem?
Will it still be hoping in five years' time?
-Tony Laycock, Brighton
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