You say the Advanced Passenger Train had been canned “partly because of the motion sickness it allegedly induced” (End of era for Virgin: Why track record is mixed for Branson’s red trains, 7 December). Pendolino trains do induce motion sickness, as I can testify. It’s one of the reasons (not to mention the price) I choose to travel via the slightly slower Chiltern line, which is more efficient as I’m not prevented by nausea from working on the train.
Margaret Jacobi
Birmingham
• I went to vote then came home to read my Guardian. The superlative collection on the letters page (12 December) left me weeping – and praying that all the thought-waves encapsulated there could somehow echo way beyond the confines of the Guardian chamber and save the country: hopeless, I know, but this naive girl has to dream.
Alexandra Shepherd
Aberdeen