Yb Browne, Sidcup
31st August 2014 | Your Views
Fewer carriages, fewer seats, far more expensive. Put the cash back into the railways, not the big boys’ pockets. It’s daylight robbery and we allow it to happen.
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David Carr, TadleyI hope you are successful with your petition.
David Rigg, DumfriesReverse Beeching’s and Thatcher’s criminality.
Lesley Ward, ManchesterThe trains are old, dirty and late or cancelled.
Richard Abram, DurhamMoney currently going to shareholders could be invested in the railway and in a properly coordinated public transport system.
Mark Brophy, North WalshamFar from being efficient, privatisation has led to bad use of funds and profits for shareholders at the expense of the travelling public. Bring back British Rail.
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