Olivier Brousse, managing director of Connex, claims his company's new trains have been designed with the needs of disabled passengers in mind. (Argus, August 25)

I was moved to comment because I am myself mildly disabled and sometimes travel with elderly and wheelchair-bound friends and relatives. Apart from the wheelchair spaces and special toilets which are now a legal requirement for new trains, I didn't get the impression the needs of disabled people were considered at all.

Connex needs to give priority to improving facilities at its stations, not congratulating itself on the third-class trains it is about to inflict on the travelling public.

-Henry Law, Queen's Gardens, Brighton