SIR – The Department for Transport was ordered to slash £683 million from its budget, consequently 100 extra carriages will not be delivered to train operators across the Bradford district as promised.

If you’re fed up with travelling on overcrowded trains especially in the rush hour, then hard lines, because it looks like you’ll have to put up with it for years to come.

Tim Calow, chairman of the Aire Valley Rail Users Group, said: “Extra carriages were needed now to cope with passengers that are already travelling.” (T&A, June 5).

As for the rail link across Bradford, M Neale’s letter, in the same edition, stated it was a non-starter as the cost would be in excess of £100 million.

So it looks like there will be more and more cars on our roads at a time when environmentalists say it is imperative to reduce CO2 emissions.

In order to combat overcrowding, I wonder if we’ll see on railway notice boards the slogan coined at the onset of the Second World War, ‘Is your journey really necessary?’

David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford