Bring back British Rail.

Nationalised companies are what makes Britain great.

If Mr Miliband tore up his advisers’ scripts and enunciated this as a serious aim for next year he could just win to give this notion real traction.

My TOC is Southern and they are the worst in the world. They’re skimming off dividends for their non-UK parent companies’ shareholders coming from public paid subsidies.

Isn’t it obvious that privatisation is rubbish? The only rail line that is in profit and running trains on time is the only one that hasn’t been privatised, i.e. East Coast.

They should never have been sold off to greedy private companies who have ripped off the travelling public ever since.

It is a nonsense that a so-called First World country does not have a public train network.

Re-nationalise the rail service. It was ours and should be again.

Nothing could be said apart from privatisation being a catalogue of disasters.

Some 35 years on from Thatcher, it’s time the government owned up that privatised bodies are far costlier than national ones.

They were told it wouldn’t work. No other country has such a fragmented system. Unify the lot, track, signalling, rolling stock and stations.

Private companies take profit and run down quality. Nothing has ever been as good as British Rail.

Bring back available, affordable travel for all. Not everyone has a car or can afford one. We all like to get out and about, not just car drivers.

They should never have been re-privatised. Failure was why it was nationalised in the first place. Every other country in Europe has a great railway system.

Worst service ever. How they get away with it is a complete joke.

Southern Rail made my life misery for years and may now prevent me from moving from London back to Brighton to be closer to my family, as I might not be able to get to work.

Having now had quite a bit of experience of services provided by the private sector, I am clear that key facilities such as railways should be nationalised.

I agree with the idea of a not-for-profit company running BR. DOR has successfully run the East Coast mainline bringing in a return for the taxpayer.

East Coast service proves that the railways can make money under public ownership. All public services and utility companies ought to be re-nationalised.

It is August 29th and the cheapest available ticket for travel between London and Morpeth on Sunday 13th November is £80. That’s utter robbery.

End the current farce of increasing fares just to line the pockets of the fat cats.

Railways now, power and water next.

Public transport needs to be public, with all profit used to maintain and improve services.

UK plc.

Privatisation has been a disaster for the public services and the culture that it has encouraged has lead to a cheapening of every aspect of our public life.

Everywhere I travel in Europe by train they’re cheaper and much more efficient.

Just delays and people faffing around.

The failure and expense of the privatisation of the railways should be a warning to those who are pushing through similar policies for other public services.

I used to know how to buy a train ticket and now even such a simple thing as that has become impossible.

It should be a public service not a gravy train.