Your Views - Bring Back British Rail

I am just sick to the teeth of the year-on-year above inflation price hikes. Passengers are being fleeced, pure and simple . Enough is enough.

Andy Wilkinson, Norwich

Bring it back.

Duncan Stone, Hebden Bridge

Lack of public transport is one of the biggest obstacles to employment and social mobility. It’s vital to the nation and private enterprise cannot be trusted to manage it.

Paul White, Leicester

An efficient and affordable train service is vital for the economic well-being of the country.

Nicholas Burman-Vince, London

Excellent – a publicly owned railway is essential if new towns to accommodate housing need are to be properly planned with new lines where necessary.

Peter Latham, Hoyland, Barnsley

Bring back one unified company, but it must be free of government control.

Neal Ball, Hove

I’m sick of everything run for profit, what about service to the people of this country who pay for everything through their taxes but get nothing except cuts in return?

Karen Nolan, Stockport

Railways should be run by the people for the people.

James Parmenter, March

They should never have been sold off.

Margaret Powell, London

A Dorset Tory MP told Mrs Thatcher that privatising the railways would be ‘Poll tax on wheels’. A pity she didn’t listen.

Mike Chaney, Dorchester

Far too much profit going into people’s pockets, and not enough going back into the British Rail network.

Stuart Malcolm, Penicuik

Name a privatisation that has benefited the people.

Glen Gibb, Dunbar

Having so many TOCs does not provide competition, but very complex and expensive fare structures. They should all be merged into a publicly owned company.

Thomas Smith, Chesham

It is long past the time for our rail network to be returned back to public ownership and to providing reliable, quality service and not just profit.

John Lean, Maidstone

I feel privatisation has failed big time.

Michael David Jewett, Harrogate

I agree that we should re-nationalise the railways and make them more affordable.

Hampton Family, Westgate-on-Sea

Let’s have a government with common sense. Is that too much to ask for? Apparently so.

Carol Wilson, Saffron Walden

Cornwall is badly served by current train companies. Slow indirect trains, often no catering facilities, and expensive to get anywhere up-country.

Hilary Roberts, Penzance

Nationalise British Rail.

Andrew Wilkes, Cardiff

Nationalisation will create price stabilisation through economies of scale. BBBR.

Jamie Mckale, London

It is ludicrous that we have to pay for an over-expensive, inefficient railway system because of the political dogma of politicians.

Brian Mitchell, London

There is no advantage for the public for the service to remain as profitable and as almost uselessly negligent as it actually is. Paying high for substandard everything.

Eliot Humphreys, Wrexham