A new golden age of British rail depends on total electrification | Letters

Charles EL Gilman urges the government to resume and complete electrification schemes, Jim Grozier fondly remembers on-board sightseeing booklets, while Victoria Owens recalls an ecclesiastical jewel seen from a train I was glad to read in Ian Jack's article (The London to Edinburgh train ride was once a thing of wonder. Can it be again?, 19 November) that, on the trains operated by Lumo in the east coast mainline, "every part of the train is electric". Even an exclusively diesel-powered train i...