I am a passenger

I WAS interested to read Athena’s article about the management of railway stations (). It made me, for Surbiton Railway Station in the early 1980s. They earned acclaim from art critics and a local newspaper said: ‘An Art Deco station on the outside and inside it housed one of London’s most impressive grand scale examples of commissioned public art.’ The murals were there for about 15 years, until being torn down and thrown in a skip without warning. There was public outrage, but it was too late. Graeme dedicated his life to creating beauty and to bringing art out of the gallery and into public spaces and was very demoralised by this destruction of his work. Such corporate vandalism must not be repeated.