Rail links plea

Alastair Dalton’s rather ­revisionist account of Dr Beeching’s cuts to Scotland’s railways (“450 miles of Scots railway ‘dodged Beeching axe’”, 21 March) is ominously quiet about the prospect of restoring services to St Andrews, as outlined in his previous article (“After 40 years, St Andrews is a step closer to rail travel”, 12 May).

Are we to take it that the ­review carried out by Tata Steel Projects, making out the case for a rail service to St Andrews, has been quietly binned?

As has often been pointed out, not least by the tireless ­campaigning of the Starlink pressure group, it is quite 
ridiculous that, for more than 40 years, the home of golf and 
of one of Britain’s major 
universities has been deprived of a train service.

Harry D Watson

Braehead Grove

Edinburgh