SIR - Looking at the grimace on the Queen's face, pictured in your centre pages (T&A, May 26) as she arrived in Bradford by train from New Pudsey, I feel sure she must have noticed all the rubbish on the embankments that Network Rail should have cleared but said they hadn't been given enough notice by the council.

Bradford councillor Stanley King, chairman of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority, said: "It was disappointing but I imagine they were overwhelmed by the volume of rubbish along the route and would probably have needed 50 to 60 people to clear it all up!

Really! Well why didn't the company employ more workers then? It isn't as if they were short of the money as they had already pledged to spend £20,000 on cleaning up the whole line after the visit.

Perhaps that wasn't a grimace on the Queen's face after all but one of anger that fare paying passengers should have to put up with such eyesores.

David Rhodes, Croscombe Walk, Bradford