19 JUNE 1936, Page 20

RAILWAYS AND THE SUBURBS [To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—Janus has been guilty of one of his rare injustices in taking a service in an expanding area as typical of British rail suburban services. If he realised how much care and organ- isation goes to the making of such intensive services, and if he had ever used a rush hour train on the Paris electrified lines of the Etat (nationalised) Railway, he would no longer cavil at the Southern nor utter the Socialist parrot-cry of nationalisa- tion. Our suburban lines are still the world's .best.—Yours, [Janus writes : My pen slipped last week, as pens will. For " Stonebridge " I should have written " Stoneleigh.-]