I USE the service from Warminster to Waterloo and return twice a week. It would be seriously inconvenient to me for this service to be scrapped.

First, the connecting service via Salisbury is very unreliable, due to persistent late running of the connecting Cardiff to Portsmouth/Brighton line. Additionally, the connections either way are not co-ordinated with the mainline Exeter to Waterloo line.

Second, the alternative of travelling from Westbury to Paddington is unattractive. It is more expensive and Paddington is a inconvenient arrival point for those wishing to end up in south west London.

J BOWER

Chapmanslade.

AS regular users of the Trowbridge-Waterloo train service we strongly support your campaign for its retention. How can such a well-used service be axed?

Who are the Strategic Rail Authority to decide on such action? They are an unelected, undemocratic body. I hope they listen to the voices of the people.

A BROWN AND B BROWN

North Bradley.

This is an important and well used route that would cause inconvenience to thousands of people if it closed.

Public transport in this country is already at an all time low. I was under the impression that the aim was to improve it and encourage people to stay off the roads. What with this news, and the pouring of billions of pounds which could be spend on the railways now being ploughed into enlarging motorways, the opposite appears to be the case.

PA DAVIES

Downhayes Road

Trowbridge.

I believe that under the new Wessex franchise possibly next year trains will run from Portsmouth/Brighton to Bristol only. Thus the journey to Cardiff will be on a different company.

This will force passengers, if the Wales and Borders train is withdrawn, to travel to Salisbury and then change, no doubt more expensive and time-consuming, and also probably no easy connections. I hope for our protests are listened to and not binned.

B MESSOM

Trowbridge.