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Views of the Overground
• SO the Cinderella line has found its prince in the shaped of a £250million cash injection.
Not so according to Gill Rouse (Overground trains are like cattle trucks, September 3 ) and I would fully endorse her views.
If ever there was a wasted opportunity it is Transport for London’s inability to grasp that, unlike the Underground, Overground trains enjoy a view. So why design new trains with inward- facing seating?
The London Overground spans the leafy spaces of Richmond, Kew and Hampstead Heath, the vast panoramas of the King’s Cross and Willesden Junction railway lands, ending its journey in the midst of the 2012 Olympic site.
As an artist, I have in the past been inspired by this landscape… now my only view is the mass of commuters standing (yes, there is about half of the seating as on the old trains) amid a mass floor strewn free newspapers (overhead racks have been scrapped) and on my last trip a gang of children swinging from the new hand stirrups.
Bring back the Cinderella trains.
Pam Walker
Prince of Wales Road,
Kentish Town
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