Susan TreagusManchester• The artistic endeavours inspired by railways mentioned in your editorial (26 September) does not include the best of all, Edward Thomas’s 1914 poem Adlestrop. In its final two lines, “… all the birds / Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire”, you can actually hear the engine stirring back into action. Somewhere to store your crime penalty points en route to going to jail (How we can reform community sentencing, letters, 28 September). Laura ConynghamCrediton, Devon• Trump has given Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his peace plan (Report, 30 September). Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.