Charles Patmore is spot-on (Letters, 6 February). People will be encouraged to use services if they think they are safe. In July, just before “freedom day” in England, I wrote to the managing director of LNER, urging him to make masks a condition of carriage, or at least provide mask-only carriages, as Mr Patmore suggests. I suggested that no one was going to be attracted to trains by not having to wear a mask, and many would be deterred. Reply came there none.
Since then, my wife and I have made three trips from Edinburgh to London. Previously we would have gone on the train. Instead, all three journeys were made by car – not good for us, the environment or LNER’s finances.
Adam Rennie
Edinburgh
