Bring it back.

National Rail is the best way forward – but it must be well-funded and inventive, so it needs real investment.

I remember old Beeching, the beginning of the demise of the British Rail network, and it’s even worse now.

As a retired British Rail Civil Engineer I will confirm that, with a direct labour workforce of BR employees right up to Chief Civil Engineers, we rocked.

Start with the railways, then re-nationalise gas, water and electricity. Hands off the Royal Mail too!

I like trains and want to see more trains without the trains being owned by bad train companies.

Give the railways back to the public. Private ownership doesn’t work. It’s not a new idea and it can be done with next to no cost. What are they playing at?

Bringing back British Rail can put an end to the mass confusion on the railways by having to go from one company’s train service to another’s.

Prices for train travel have soared through the roof and passengers are penalised financially if they travel at certain times.

I’m sick to death of Tory-inspired rip-offs.

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.

Put people above profits. We were once known around the world for having a great rail service. Stop selling the people’s property.

Bring BR back. SouthEastern and the others are a joke, and are ripping us all off.

We regularly travel across the country, encountering delays due to cancellations, strikes etc. Different providers do not take any responsibility for the consequences.

One of the South Yorkshire Freedom Riders, we believe transport should be for the use of the public with control by the public not a money-maker for private companies.

As a West Coast line user I have seen rise after rise and I only get a seat on one in four of my journeys.

East Coast rail, state-owned, more efficient than private rail companies, also given taxpayers’ money and costs more.

Public transport is, or at least should be a public service and, like all public services, it should not be a business opportunity for private companies to exploit taxpayers.

The privatised service is much worse for customers and employees. It makes no sense.

Long Overdue for changing, this nightmare called privatisation.

I’m due to become a university student, but the train fares are too high for me to perform a morning commute. A nationalised rail would help reduce these ridiculous fees.

Nice advert on the back of Private Eye.

I’m fed-up with subsidising this privatisation.

The theft that was their nationalisation continues to rob us daily. This must end.

It’s so obvious, it hardly needs arguing.

We are fed up with paying high rise prices for these greedy rail bosses. The trains never get you on time. Bring back British Rail.

We need to maintain a core of public services which create a sense of shared ownership and shared benefit. Water, energy, health, education cannot be open to profiteers.

Good ideas here!

Nationalised services for the common good should be preferred over shareholder profit for the privileged few.

Britain has the most expensive railway system in the world because it has been carved up for profit.