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
