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Tom Constable, Caithness

21st May 2011 | Your Views

We’re passengers, not customers and we need one good service, not a wasteful bunch of businesses.

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A nationalised rail system in Britain would bring more efficient service for customers. In addition workers would be proud to work for the good of people not profit.
Elizabeth Collier, Liverpool
End the farce and re-nationalise the railways. I travel to and from Cumbria by train and have never arrived on time in any direction. Also the fares are so expensive,
Glyn Jones, Dartford
I worked on railway 36 years and had a good job when British Rail. Now all the private companies are interested in is profit which comes from the taxpayer.
Ken Fitzpatrick, Knutsford
It should never have been sold off. Fat cats got fatter.
Amanda Mulholland, Birmingham
An innovative transport system built with the shovels, barrows and early graves of our Victorian forefathers – today’s capitalist corporation is an insult to their memory.
Peter Hannifan, Bournemouth

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📢 The 3rd Reading of the #RailwaysBill will now take place this 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟭𝟬 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 🚆 Don't miss your chance to email your MP and ask them to back crucial amendments to ensure that our new publicly-owned Great British Railways always puts passengers' rights before private profit 👇 @top fans ... See MoreSee Less

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The Railways Bill must protect passengers' rights and our environment

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📢 Last chance to take action! The #RailwaysBill which will establish Great British Railways get its 3rd Reading in the Commons this 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝟯 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 🚆 Please email your MP to ask them to back our amendments ensuring passengers' rights are always put before private profit 👇 @top fans ... See MoreSee Less

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Good Riddance Govia! 🚆 We’re celebrating Thameslink, Southern Railway & Great Northern finally back in public ownership today 👏 This marks the end of a decade long fight begun by our friends the Association of British Commuters during the #SouthernFail crisis in 2016. Read more here: bringbackbritishrail.org/news @top fans ... See MoreSee Less

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Please take action before Weds 3 June! 👇 @top fans
📧 weownit.org.uk/act-now/protect-passengers-rights🚨The Railways Bill comes back to parliament on 3rd June

This bill was supposed to "put people at the heart of our railway" - but it does not

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It was great to support We Own It's Tug of War: Passengers vs Profiteers event outside Parliament this week 👏 We're raising awareness for the issues with the #RailwaysBill 🚆💸 Please email your MP to ask whose side they're on 👇 @top fans
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Let’s make the case for democratic social ownership, fit for the 21st century, ensuring our railways are run in the interests of passengers, not profiteers.
Owen Jones, writer
East Coast shows us that publicly owned rail works better for passengers and taxpayers. We need a railway fit for the future – it’s got to be in public hands.
Cat Hobbs, We Own It
There is no good excuse left for rail privatisation beyond enriching wealthy elites. Public ownership delivers for social and environmental needs over private profit.
Professor Andrew Cumbers, University of Glasgow
Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service – but on how many tariffs they can bamboozle customers with.
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
Something as important and necessary (and enjoyable) as train travel should be in the hands of the people, be affordable and safe, not making money for shareholders.
Nina Power, writer
The privatisation of the railways was a scandal that created an unworkable and expensive structure which should be replaced with a national unified network.
Christian Wolmar, transport commentator
Now is the moment to re-nationalise the railways and it has never been cheaper or more possible.
Andrew Gilligan, journalist
Taking our railways back from private profiteers will mean better services, fairer rail fares and more than £1 billion a year in savings for the public purse.
Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP
At its heart privatisation in Britain was never about selling public networks but about selling the rights to tax those who are obliged to use them.
James Meek, writer
A good public transport system should be the foundation of a fair, just, happy, low-carbon world.
Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
Research into privatisation… boils down to one key finding: the only way Branson and the vast majority of train barons make their profits is through handouts from the taxpayer.
Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
To be able to reduce C02 emissions, by persuading people to leave cars at home, we need a fast, efficient subsidised railway system that’s run for people not profit!
Ellie Harrison, campaign founder
Transport is an essential public service and ought to be publicly owned and publicly controlled. We need an enormous expansion in the investment in our railways and that is the best way of achieving it.
Tony Benn, politician
If the private companies that took over the national railways are cutting back and eroding services at a time when the climate crisis demands expanded low-carbon transportation alternatives to keep more of us out of planes, then these services too must be reclaimed.
Naomi Klein, writer
Privatisation is only progress, if you mean progressing towards an apocalypse of injustice. Bring back British Rail!
Josie Long, comedian
Like most people in Britain, I think that a railway is a natural function of the state, and so ought to be run by the state – for the sake of coherence, transparency, continuity, accountability and national pride.
Andrew Martin, writer
Privatisation of the railways has failed. Its time to make a virtue of public ownership, and the public service provided by state employees.
Charles Secrett, The ACT! Alliance
In 1948 Labour nationalised rail to rebuild Britain after a world war. Today bankers and speculators use privatised trains for tax scams. Time to bring back British Rail.
Alex Gordon, former RMT President
Only a publicly owned railway can deliver affordable fares, good services, high customer satisfaction, properly staffed stations and a profitable return to the public purse.
Charles Secrett, The ACT! Alliance
The UK public wants a publicly owned railway, and so do we. Lush calls for an end to the failed experiment of privatising essential services.
Tamsin Omond, Lush Campaigns

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