Edmund Connell, DoverRe-nationalise and start repairing the damage caused by the fragmentation of the industry into a thousand pieces.
Hannah Holroyd, ColchesterToo expensive for such an unreliable service. The new increase is an absolute joke from out-of-touch people with no experience of the service.
Jim Lacey, HolyheadA fragmented service, owned by mainly foreign companies, charging higher fares than the rest of world for benefit of shareholders not passengers. Re-nationalise it.
Simon Walsworth, LondonThere’s nothing as important as getting our people to work. Rail travel should be owned and run by the people for the people.
Peter Baker, LondonI don’t see how an increasing cost to the taxpayer and passenger, on a monopoly, can be considered acceptable. It strangles the economy if nothing else.
Melvyn Dalley, SheffieldPrivatisation has failed, as it seems do in most public services.
Susan Gentleman, EnfieldA comprehensive national rail system is essential. Nationalise it in order to have a comprehensive system with profits kept for re-investment.
Carol Neist, Perth, AustraliaBelieve me, the chaos that is railway in the UK is doing the tourist industry no good at all. It’s complicated and confusing.
John McIntosh, ThornhillNothing taken out of public ownership is an improvement. All they are interested in are profits for shareholders. The only losers are the consumers.
Derek Gould, OrpingtonI do not believe in privatisation.
Anne Sweetman, Newcastle-upon-TyneEast Coast is making a profit for the taxpayers. The railways should benefit the people it serves, not make profits for personal gain.
Simon Kempthorne, HastingsPrivatisation has done the opposite of what was intended – to save public expenditure. How many times have franchises been bailed out at taxpayers’ expense?
Susan Anderson, DoncasterWe are great when we create
Alexander Holland, New OllertonThe East Coast mainline has just returned a quarter of a million pounds to the exchequer. Would it not be advisable to bring the rest of the rail network in line?
Alan Hird, BasingstokeThat was a terrible bodged privatisation in 1995 and needs to be completely reversed.
Nic Hubbard, YorkThe fact that the infrastructure and major stations had to be nationalised anyway means that simply nationalising the whole thing makes total sense to me.
Jeremy Johnson, CroydonHopefully, we will all realise that all essential services are best handled by the public sector and not for profit.
Chris Bourne, NottinghamIt’s about time we could book tickets on the day without having to pay stupid money compared with having planned a journey 5 weeks in advance.
Veronica Symes, FarehamThe cost of train fares is scandalous. The railways should never have been privatised making passengers suffer under high paid big bosses.
Jack Clare, ManchesterI’m fed up with ridiculous train fares.
Giles Hannaford, ShrewsburyBring back a cheaper, cleaner and more reliable service.
Alexandra Gillett, BristolRailways should be a public service, not a private profit-generating business. They should work for us, not shareholders.
William Ellerby, Newcastle-upon-TyneOne organisation would give scope for greater efficiency and savings in costs.
Nicholas Roscoe, SheffieldManaged properly, nothing should be able to beat a nationalised rail industry.
David Clemson, HalifaxFares too high, no co-ordination with other railways and buses, too much money syphoned off to bosses and shareholders.
Peter Dickinson, Brierley HillThe current franchise agreements mean that profits can be sucked away from the railways by private companies, yet the government then has to stump up money for investment.
Colin O’Connor, MaidstonePrivatisation has failed. It was always going to fail. Its time to finish this foolish experiment and return the railways to the people.
Garry Goodwin, WatfordStop private companies drawing profits from assets that belong to us all.
Jacob Colclough, Stoke-on-TrentThere was more efficient running of trains back then and there were proper locomotives.
Charlie Furness, CardiffAppalling quality and ludicrous prices of rail in the UK are uneconomical, unfair, and do nothing but push commuters to use cars. Nationalisation is for the common good.