6 JUNE 1952, Page 17

Railway Regions

SIR,—Compact and familiar names for our railway regions would be Great Western, Southern, North-Western, North-Eastern and Cale- donian. All of these, except Southern, date back to the days before the amalgamations of the 1920s.—Faithfully yours,

Araluen, Seaford, Sussex.

E. F. DAVIDSON.