FOR the third time in as many weeks I boarded a ScotRail train to find there was no heating in the unreserved carriage.

Fortunately, this morning (February 21) the train is quiet and passengers have been able to move into the two carriages with heating. That wasn't the case last week when, with an outdoor temperature of 2c, the packed 0845hrs train left Inverness for Glasgow with no heating in the unreserved coach and no possibility of moving to one of the heated carriages.

When I asked the guard this morning why there was still no heating in the unreserved carriage, he informed me that the air conditioning unit in that carriage had been marked as faulty on January 2. He could only apologise and said he could offer no explanation as to why, almost seven weeks later, the fault had not been rectified.

Is it any wonder passenger satisfaction with ScotRail has been falling? I cannot understand how it remains as high as 85 per cent.

Douglas Clark,

88 Duncan Drive, Elgin, Morayshire.