IT was interesting to read the letter from Mr McCabe ("Strain on train", March 9).

We travelled by GNER the previous Sunday with no problems at all, the 10pm train arriving in York at 12.10am, a few minutes early.

Our "problem" started with the taxi driver from the station taxi rank. On our way home he was asked if he would accept travel tokens, only to be told that he worked for cash at that time of the early morning; what was I doing out of bed at that time?; and he could not understand why pensioners were given tokens anyway.

After a wonderful weekend in London, what a welcome back to York.

Barbara Parkin,

Rawcliffe Way,

Shipton Road,

York.

Updated: 10:21 Tuesday, March 14, 2006