Adrian Chiles describes his journey on the Heart of Wales line as “quietly joyous a four hours as I’ve spent on a train, or anywhere else” (22 October). More than 60 years ago, coming home after my first term at college, I enjoyed the most magical train journey of my life. I boarded at Llandeilo, where the waiting room had a sofa and coal fire, and for the next few hours every tree, bush, leaf and blade of grass shimmered with a silvery hoar frost in the weak winter sunshine. It felt like some kind of wonderland.
Marilyn Rowley
Didsbury, Manchester
• Tiff Bakker is spot-on when she says “If only Wainwright had made these women a ‘bunch of lesbians’” (There is a fascinating TV series to be made about a menopausal rock band – Riot Women isn’t it, 22 October). If you want to see how it’s done, go and see Gwenda’s Garage. It was on at Sheffield Playhouse last week and will be on at Southwark Playhouse in London from 30 October to 29 November. As it says in the programme, “dismantling the patriarchy one spark plug at a time”.
Paul Davy
Menston, West Yorkshire
• Might the people smugglers now start to offer season tickets (Man sent to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat, 22 October)?
Claude Scott
Richmond, London
• I would remind Tony Mabbott (Letters, 24 October) that there is no such thing as a Guardian typo, only Grauniad typos.
Johnston Anderson
Nottingham
• Regarding your editorial on the budget (The Guardian view on the budget: what a Labour chancellor should really say, 26 October), I hope Rachel Reeves reads the Guardian.
Moira Robinson
Kidlington, Oxfordshire
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