Like Adrian Chiles (24 October), I too take pleasure in a delayed train, but for a different reason. As a photographic artist, some years ago I decided that each time my train stopped at signals, I would take a picture out of the window, of whatever was out there. I now have a sizable collection of snapshots (of hedges, fields, industrial estates, housing estates, railway paraphernalia, graffitied walls etc), which I hope to one day publish as a photobook in order to subvert the traditional travel guide style of photography. As a byproduct, I find this now makes me enjoy slow train journeys much more, looking forward to the hold-ups, as well as providing something of a record of my zigzagging around the country.
Ian Harris
Wellow, Somerset
