FROM time to time I travel to London by South West Trains from Southampton at 11.00 or Southampton Airport Parkway at 11.08.

Almost invariably the train comprises only five coaches, one of them first class, and is overcrowded, passengers standing to Waterloo.

I have made repeated representations to South West Trains, and have also communicated with MPs, to no avail. Surely it cannot be beyond the capability of South West Trains to arrange to attach a few extra coaches to this ‘service’.

ALEC SAMUELS, West End.