Sir – It is madness to allow people to push wheelbarrows over the main high speed railway line in North Oxford (Report, April 29).

It is double madness to do this right in front of a primary school.

There will be a terrible accident before long, and I do hope it will only be bits of marrow and compost we will be removing from the tracks.

That crossing may have been used for nearly 100 years, but back then trains were powered by boiling water and there was no school next to it. There is a footbridge only a few metres away, ironically visible in the background of your photograph.

Michael Boyd, Oxford