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Gina Woods, Norwich

1st February 2014 | Your Views

Re-nationalisation and the profit made would assure governments that they could invest to improve our failing rail system. It’s a win/win situation.

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  • Why should profits be given to the fat cats when the profits could and should be ploughed back into the industry?

    Roy England, Watford
  • Overcrowding and poor service on CrossCountry. Too much emphasis on profits and not enough on passenger interests.

    Timothy Gregory, Deepcar, Sheffield
  • Over-crowded trains, unreliable services, staff cuts, rising prices regardless of the quality or level of service, so time that this was addressed.

    Debbie Gibson, Leeds
  • Rising fares, lack of maintenance, splitting of responsibility, lack of co-ordination, of information, of railcard value – national value lost for private enrichment.

    Joy Rutter, Gateshead
  • One of the very worst privatisations. It makes no economic sense from either side of the political divide. Make public transport something to be proud of again.

    Aaron Bliss, Oxfordshire

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    • Taking our railways back from private profiteers will mean better services, fairer rail fares and more than ยฃ1 billion a year in savings for the public purse.

      Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP
    • 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
    • Privatisation of the railways has failed. Its time to make a virtue of public ownership, and the public service provided by state employees.

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    • The privatisation of the railways was a scandal that created an unworkable and expensive structure which should be replaced with a national unified network.

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    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Now is the moment to re-nationalise the railways and it has never been cheaper or more possible.

      Andrew Gilligan, journalist
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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 UK public wants a publicly owned railway, and so do we. Lush calls for an end to the failed experiment of privatising essential services.

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    • Privatisation has delivered… a system in which train operators and energy firms compete not on service โ€“ but on how many tariffs they can bamboozle customers with.

      Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian
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    • 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
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