A magical journey through Wales | Brief letters

Train travel | Gwenda’s Garage | Deportation scheme | Grauniad typos | Budget speechAdrian Chiles describes his journey on the Heart of Wales line as “quietly joyous a four hours as I’ve spent on a train, or anywhere else” (22 October). More than 60 years ago, coming home after my first term at college, I enjoyed the most magical train journey of my life. I boarded at Llandeilo, where the waiting room had a sofa and coal fire, and for the next few hours every tree, bush,