Genre: Opinion/Argumentation

Discuss this article with... Around the world it seems that different countries have tried various tactics when naming classes of public transport Sir, Your correspondent's Trans-Siberian Express experience ( letter, Oct 25 ) reminded me of a conversation I had with a Moscow taxi driver in the late 1970s. I had not been in the Soviet Union for 15 years and wondered how the man in the street was faring economically. "Well," he replied. "In the West you have inflation, but here the prices just keep on going up!" Allan Schiller Bristol Sir, In contrast to the brutalist realism of "hard" and "soft" class, Irish Railways introduced the terms "Standard" and the slightly ambiguous "Super Standard" to differentiate their classes of on-train accommodation in