It’s time the Labour Party made it a manifesto pledge.

This should be run for the people and not for profit.

I believe all major infrastructure should be nationalised, so that it is controlled by government, thereby giving the voters ultimate control, not fat cats.

It needs doing now. Re-nationalise the lot.

For the love of God, get our social infrastructure away from these foul spivs! No more privatisation of anything, you avaricious bastards!

Hear hear.

Leaves were never a problem for British Rail. It should never have been made a run-for-profit organisation.

They should never have been privatised in the first place, as this is a true public monopoly.

Rip-off Britain. See it by rail, if only you could afford to.

Most other European countries have nationalised rail services which function far better than ours.

Re-nationalisation could be designed to benefit passengers, workers and small/medium size companies as well through fair non-cartel competition. Fewer lazy fat cats.

We need a proper railway service, not the one we have at the moment.

It’s about time taxpayers stopped subsidising railways so private firms take profits. East Coast rail has proved that public ownership equals profit for taxpayers.

My father worked for British Rail from 1947 until 1958 when he was made redundant due to privatisation. He was devastated.

We need an integrated rail service, not one with competing companies resulting in difficulties in organising journeys and crazy pricing structures.

For many reasons, public safety being one of them, the trains should come back to their rightful home – the public sector.

Bring it back asap British Rail.

Yes. British Rail for ever.

I am a former porter on BR in 1949-50. I would like the railways back in public ownership.

East Coast trains have shown the way. It’s no good saying if it was privatised it would do better. It was tried twice and failed twice. Let’s bring all the network back.

The service is Dickensian and all about profit, not about the quality of service. We the general public are held to ransom by giving Southern Rail another renewed franchise

Give us back our National Rail.

It is high time we reclaimed the railways which should be a public service. Public money should never be paid to supplement private sector profits, as is being done now.

Keep the fare prices down and the public services in public control.

My father, my granddad, my uncle, my ex-partner all worked on BR. How it has been run and maintained the past few years has been of great concern to me.

Give us back the good old days.

I loved British Rail as a tourist. I miss it.

East Coast is handing back millions to the government. Keep it as Directly Operated Railways and do the same for the rest.

Rail profits back to the people.

It’s better not to use wording like “re-nationalise”. Include all utilities and bus companies. Make sure the latter run services co-ordinated with the rail system.