THE next route for electrification (Letters, September 19) should most certainly in as far as suburban rail lines within Glasgow and its environs be that to East Kilbride and Barrhead and, may I suggest, Kilmarnock. The route to East Kilbride has proposals for this as far back as the 1949 Commission by Sir Robert Inglis, reporting in 1951. It has survived the vicissitudes of later years and reported increased usage of the line and its intermediate stations warrants action regarding electrification ere long that would also deal with the ageing DMU stock currently used.

In general I would certainly agree that disbanding the teams engaged on soon to be finished other lines of route should not be considered; rather that a rolling programme of such electrification work throughout Scotland be of the utmost importance, those on to Perth and Inverness in the greater scheme of things taking priority.

John Macnab,

175 Grahamsdyke Street, Laurieston, Falkirk.