All energy, all transport and all water in this country should be as in most of the rest of the world – owned by its people.

Great idea.

I’m fed up with being half an hour late every day. The Southern main line needs massive investment. SWT have made it clear they won’t do it. Maybe BR would.

We are paying for it anyway so let’s have it back.

I can hear my two great grandfathers, grandfather and great uncle (all dedicated railway men) turning in their graves – they took such pride in their work.

Given the funding it works. Why should shareholders cream off profits?

Privatisation of the railways has completely failed the nation.

Bring back British Rail. Privatisation isn’t working.

Privatisation seems to be the default position of Tory policy. The services are never better run, but at least the select few can benefit.

The East Coast Line before privatisation was excellent. I would like it to return to those standards.

Enough.

Nationalisation is what the rail system needs.

For the sake for of the environment, and because the railways should be a service not a money machine.

Bring it back.

We need to do something because soon Kent to Manchester will cost over

Rail privatisation has caused me huge problems over the past sixteen years, primarily because the companies refuse to co-operate with each other over problems.

£4,116 for an annual season ticket to work – 20% of my income. What for? Slow trains, sitting on the floor and heated carriages in the summer. BBBR I say!

It’s impossible to get a seat on the train in the morning to work and they’re overpriced and dirty..

After living in France and Italy and Germany and using the rail networks there, I fully support the re-nationalisation of our rail network. Our system is a farce.

Sack Southern and Claire Perry.

British Rail was safer. The rail system we have now is dangerous.

Fare increases every year for an increasingly diminished and unreliable service. Privatised companies have had zero accountability for too long.

Just the ticket.

You should never privatise public services.

I wholeheartedly agree with your aims. Ex-British Rail employee, took voluntary redundancy in disgust after privatisation. RIP Bob Crow and John Green.

Transport should be easy, effective and as cheap as feasible. How else do you clear the roads of pollution and chaos?

I agree with Jeremy Corbyn. British Rail.

It would be great to also see improvements to rolling stock used on regional services like here on the Carlisle to Newcastle line.

Hear hear.

If I want to travel to London (36 minutes away) It costs me £36. £1 per minute, that’s crazy.