Jane Hitchin, West KirbyPrivatisation hasn’t worked. Nationalise now.
Jane Baghori, BristolBring it back please.
Ben Twomey, YorkBecause the ‘free market’ is restricting our freedom of movement, extorting us with impunity, and failing to lift the burden of subsidies from taxpayers.
Alan Jackson, Dalton-in-FurnessI’d prefer to travel by train but I can’t afford to. The planet can’t afford me to travel by car.
Josephine Keers, BeaworthyI actually live in Halwill Junction. Previously I lived down the road at Bude. It used to be so easy to get to Exeter and beyond when there was a railway back in the 60s.
Can Gencer, TwickenhamI’m disgruntled with a sub-par train service.
Garry Thomas, StrathavenThe free market ideology that privatised railways means profit for the few while the state bails out. It’s the same with the energy companies and now the NHS.
Peter Wiltsher, Stratford-upon-AvonI think the public not-for-profit company which ran the East Coast line should have been allowed to bid when the contract came up for renewal.
Tim Evans, CamborneIt seems that it is OK for a government enterprise to own our railway, so long as it is German or French.
Alan Brown, HullBR wasn’t perfect but it did usually have sufficient carriages to fulfil a generally decent service. The TOCs claim rail growth is due to their efforts. It’s not.
Michael Spurden, YorkThe privatised fragmentation of British Rail cannot be called other than a total and unmitigated disaster. It has cost us dearly, in money and in lives.
Alan Street, SeaviewBring back British Railways.
Ian Aspinall, HuddersfieldTime to re-nationalise the railways.
W S Stevenson, Weymouth,Open more branch lines too, and forget high speed trains with massive costs. Just arriving on time is OK.
Christian Goldsmith, SunderlandBring it back.
Jane Wallace, NorwichEveryone realises privatisation was a mistake. They just need to nudge back to British Rail.
Nicholas Townsend, LondonBring it back to the people for the people.
Andrew Chalmers-Stevens, ExeterIf BR had had the amount of money that’s washing around the privatised system nowadays, we would have the best railway system in the world.
Chris Walker, DarlingtonGreat British Railways – the latest Tory privatisation scam!
Robin Draper, WalsallIf we want environmentally friendly transport, we need the railway, electrified and redeveloped.
Benedict Woodward, AbergavennyArriva Trains Wales is an absolute joke.
Paul Reddy, WirralRe-nationalisation of railways is easier than other privatised industries because at expiration existing franchises can be transferred to Directly Operated Railways.
Johnr Foy, LiverpoolThey should never have been privatised in the first place.
William Eldred, PeterboroughIt makes sense.
Brian Reid, St. NeotsThe disconnect between infrastructure and operations and financial inefficiencies across the unnatural boundaries is plain daft.
Phillip Pennington, LondonI enrich directors through my taxes and I also enrich them through my exorbitant fare, and the service gets worse and worse.
Janus Polenceusz, LondonPlease bring back our BR. It was Richard Branson who destroyed it by introducing Virgin Trains with buying off parts of BR.
Steve Summers, Henley-on-ThamesIt’s shocking that what should be a public service for us all now simply lines foreigners’ pockets. A national disgrace.
Judith Van Dijkhuizen, CheltenhamSomething that goes across the nation needs to belong to the nation. It was retrograde splitting the railways.
Adrian Giles, SandersteadI believe that the infrastructure of the country should be in the hands of the people and any profit from the operation of those services should be ploughed back in.