Sally Millar, EdinburghBritish taxpayers and rail customers pay for rail services – but don’t get the service they need – and private companies and shareholders take the profits. It’s mad.
Alan Gent, FrodshamBring back BR. It was cheaper and less complicated than today’s tangle of different rail companies.
Jesamine Bartlett, Market DraytonAfter spending time living in Norway where the state owns the rail system and you can travel cheaply, I am even more furious at the cost of travel in the UK on rail.
Annabelle Killworth, BasildonWe need railways to provide public services not profit for millionaires.
Cathie Thomson, ManchesterI used to be proud of our railways as were my uncles who were train drivers.
Jill Lepper, StagsdenI totally agree that we need a consolidated British Rail again run for passengers not private profit.
Boyd Fletcher, BasildonToo expensive, not enough infrastructure investment, too much is paid in subsidies to companies who don’t provide a good service. Re-nationalise the railways.
David Broadmeadow, LouthIt’s ludicrous that the profit-making (for the taxpayer), East Coast Trains has been re-privatised. That’s dogma gone mad.
Susan Rogers, ManchesterIt was so much better when we ran it ourselves.
William Lynch, AberdeenEast Coast works fine. Leave well alone. We don’t need it in private hands. Re-nationalise.
Terence Dart, WhitchurchKeep up the good work!
George Horobin, PenshurstThe railway is currently a disgrace. I missed a job interview today due to the current incompetence of the service.
Andrew Ganley, Sutton, SurreyYet another totally fed up railway user.
Paddy Carstairs, DalkeithPublic transport in public hands.
Jeanette Harold, ConsettNational transport should belong to the nation.
Axel Blackston, RedhillI will join your fight for freedom.
Elizabeth Steenton, Craven ArmsWe need more trains. Where I live we are lucky if we get one train an hour. As for the train company they are really bad. British Rail is needed.
Marsh Stephens, HullBring back British Rail.
Fouad Saad, LondonI depend on this train for my daily commute and it is an absolute disaster!
Neil Kempten, SudburyI don’t travel by rail because I don’t know how to go about getting a ticket. Nothing seems to be joined up, finding things out is difficult, so I’ll just clog up the roads.
Eliot Lopes, Eischen – G.D. LuxembourgDoes support from overseas also count?
Kevin Madden, BirminghamIt’s time to return all our assets to the people – water, gas, electric too.
Rev Padma Sumananda, BournemouthIf you remember British Rail, this is a complete no-brainer – a system that worked and did not give inflated profits to incompetent private companies.
Richard Steer, BirminghamSomething has to be done.
Frank Burgin, SheffieldWe used to complain about British Rail, but the expensive privatisation is a dog’s breakfast. Kill it dead and bring back proper public services.
Paul Robson, HartlepoolIt’s time we returned to a service that respects its passengers rather than rips off its customers.
Michael Riches, WymondhamReturn the rail network to public ownership, not shareholders.
Wojciech Simpson, YorkThe government want us to use public transport rather than cars. How is this persuading them to change?
Raymond Howells, DinningtonTime to stop pandering to the failed markets and letting foreign government-backed organisations buy our railway.
Graham Brook, WokingI’ve been to other countries on the Continent, Germany for instance, and seen how fine their publicly owned system is in terms of price/quality, it makes me want to cry.