I CONSIDER the debate that is now taking place about a new railway line in our area to be too narrow in scope. Devon Dockyard is not running at full capacity. Years ago we played host to large battleships and aircraft carriers. Why not use the spare capacity to create a container port? A railway could be then constructed to carry containers to the Midlands, the north and Scotland. The line would be electrified and would join the newly electrified line being constructed from London to Swansea. Our line would run via Tavistock, Okehampton, Exeter and Taunton. It is time that the South West shared in railway electrification. With the container port at Plymouth many ships would not have to make the long journey up the English Channel to Southampton, Tilbury and Felixstowe. Where is the money coming from I hear you ask? We seem to have wasted many lives and much money recently in futile wars in the Middle East — perhaps it is time we spent more on our own country and people. I am sure that the Victorians would have relished a project such as I have outlined above. We have the capacity to do it, all we need is the resolve. Geoffrey Willetts Tavistock I WAS interested in the letter from Nicholas Skeaping (Times, November 20). He regards the 19th Century as the age of the train and the 20th Century as the age of the car. Well, look where that got us with our congested roads! We should never have run down our railways and tramways to accommodate the car and let it take over. We are beginning to realise that we now need them back. And are there really people who do not want Tavistock and Okehampton to be linked to Plymouth and Exeter by rail and have access to main line services again?  But what intrigues me most is that Mr Skeaping regards the present century as the age of the internet. I want to go to Exeter, but do not want to drive there, and not everyone has a car. I wonder if he could explain how we get from Tavistock to Exeter by internet? Terence Scarborough Tavistock