Jim Read, ChesterfieldPerhaps we shall see some sense when the Cons and the Labour join forces.
Jean Wanless, GlasgowRailways should be nationalised, upgraded and provide cheap alternative travel to take as much traffic off the roads as possible.
Norma Tyler, Whitley BayTravel by train used to be my favourite way to travel. I can’t afford the luxury any more. It’s actually cheaper to fly. Bring back our trains for public transport again.
Roy Eyley, FarnsfieldAbout time too.
Pamela Case, LondonIt’s the only sensible way.
Russell Stubbs, ColchesterGreat Eastern commuters have no choice of rail companies, so how can privatisation be of any use to this line? Private business always wants to make profits, not run great railways.
Christopher Corbett, LondonThe public should not continue to subsidise private enterprise.
Elspeth Gray, EdinburghOther countries run superb, state-run rail services. Why can’t we?
Fred Green, CanterburyPublic ownership is best for the people and country.
Vivek Patel, LeicesterWe need cheaper public transport.
John Taylor, ChesterfieldBring back British Rail is the best for the rail network since George Stephenson,.
Gemma Brown, BristolAs a daily commuter, most of the time I’m crushed on entrance. I wouldn’t mind if it was cheap, but it’s not. It’s fast becoming a rich boy’s means of travel..
Peter Hencher-Serafin, StudleyWe did not have a say in selling it off and the way it was done cost the taxpayers a huge amount of money.
Charles Batten, LondonBR belonged to the whole nation, a national asset belonging to all of us which was sold off by an inhumane government.
Thomas Davies, Ross-on-WyeIt is incomprehensible that a national necessity is in the hands of private companies, many of them foreign.
Casey Tremain, PortsmouthWe used to moan about trains being late but the prices were fair and the staff with whom I had contact were always helpful.
Andrew Tait, EdinburghCapitalisation is fine, but when 10% of the population takes 90% of the profits and the remainder end up with increased charges, then it is time to take a reality check.
Godfrey Nyandoro, LeedsThe parcelling out of essential services to the private sector should have never been allowed in the first place. The shareholder has one thing and one thing only – profit.
Roger Bridgman, LondonBritish Rail offered a good service. Left as it was, it would soon have reached the glossy standards of today’s overpriced, heavily subsidised private companies.
Sandra Day, RiponThey should have stayed as they were.
William Earle, ScunthorpeBring back reasonably-priced rail fares. Stop the profit-making and re-invest in modern rolling stock.
Nancy NealSending good wishes from across the pond for success in your fight for a British Rail run for people, not profit.
Simon Turner, Higham FerrersI’m living in a town those rogues took the railway away from.
Christopher ParkerBecause of the way the trains currently work, it is now cheaper to get a return plane ticket to Spain than it is to get a return train ticket to London. This is daft.
Jana Jeruma-Grinberga, EnfieldThe opposition to public ownership of railways is ideologically based, and flies in the face of the evidence.
Daniel Noctor, CardiffBring it back
Lucy Wade, KentI hate the trains. We are the passengers. Make the railways a public service again.
Phillip Quarry, GloucesterFor the good of the planet, for the good for us. Transport is a necessity, and not for private profit.
Chris Walker, MiddlesbroughIt’s about time something was done to stop this profiteering.
Ivor Seymour, Sunbury-on-ThamesRail fares are much too high. I can’t afford the exorbitant prices the franchises charge so have to use the car.