• I LIVE in Warwickshire but read your paper avidly, in London, on Fridays.

In response to suggestions that double-deck trains would be a better way of increasing capacity than HS2, the government says double-deck trains, such as those on the continent, are too big for UK use (Hansard 2012).

Not exactly the whole truth. I regularly travel on mixed bi-level and single-level trains where double and single deck (within the same train) are the same height.

Moreover the maximum height, including double-deck, is less than the UK’s. There’s ample headroom for six-footers like me.

I’ve asked my MP why the government’s statement did not cover HS2 alternatives in far-away places.

ROBERT COLES
Cubbington, Warwickshire