Letters sent to Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling, following the article "Don't axe nonstop Gatwick Express" (The Argus, October 25) should make clear Southern England's skeleton rail network is inadequate.
Privatisation has left the South's network with new Electrostar trains which are unable to operate on the overcrowded network.
A Gatwick Express spokesman said: "Mixing air travellers, commuters, shoppers, disabled people and cyclists on the same train will make overcrowding on the often-empty Gatwick trains worse."
He seems to forget ordinary rail passengers are paying the highest rail fares in the world, without anywhere to put our luggage, pets, bikes, pushchairs or shopping because the new standing-room only trains have no guards' van.
We would welcome the non-stop Gatwick Express at Brighton Station. After all, UK holidaymakers flying abroad spend twice as much as foreign tourists flying in to Gatwick, therefore South Coast resorts should discourage easy access to airports and more trains to isolated coastal resorts.
-John Stanaway, Hove
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