Jonn Elledge’s article on the allegedly rightwing-led hubbub over the renaming of London Overground train lines (Tickets, please, angry Tories! You may not like the name, but you’re welcome on London’s Windrush line, 15 February) must have caused a surge of empathy, concern and indignation among rail commuters in the north who are awaiting services from HS2 (never) and TransPennine (irregular).
There Windrush, here Doldrums. There Mildmay, here Dismay. Nice to have the luxury of rail services worth bickering over. Susan Hall, the Conservatives’ mayoral candidate in London, accuses Sadiq Khan of virtue signalling (London Overground: new names and colours for six lines revealed, 15 February). I’d settle for real signalling on a railway system that functions.
Dr Jonathan J Ross
Sheffield
