RAILWAY RACKETS
SIR,—A different railway racket, equally intolerable and less controvertible, seems worthy of your animadversion. I refer to the appalling and monstrous distortion of canned music which the caprice of British Railways (Southern Region) sees tit to inflict at Waterloo on passengers incapable of retalia- tion. This din is suddenly projected .without warning, and without any regard to those of us travellers whose ears may be painfully offended by the choice, the discordance and the sheer noise of this raucous din.
Has anyone asked for it ? Who chooses the records ? Does anyone protest, or does the pontifical executive arrogate the right to know what is good for us 1 Perhaps it is assumed that, television and radio battered, the great British public cannot endure "silence, nor even the modified tranquillity of a rail; way terminus.
Then we are fast approaching the Orwellian era of ubiquitous cacophony—the world is my juke-box.—Yours faithfully,
IVAN COI I'
Hoopers House, Exminster, Devon
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