ACCORDING to a mobile phone company's advertisements, the train can be your office, sending written messages and e-mails.

They don't mention you can also take and make calls to the general annoyance of other passengers.

Between them, mobile phone poseurs and the banal are just as polluting as smokers and should only be allowed to take and make calls in the toilet.

I understand that there are moves afoot to provide 'phone only' coaches on main line trains. Great -- they can then annoy the hell out of each other and leave us in peace.

D PRATT (Mr), Plantation Street, Accrington.