Nick East, StroudEvery ticket is overpriced so no wonder rail travel is decreasing.
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.
Tom Watkins, GravesendAs a contractor to L.U.L., I see an amazing amount of wasted time and money.
Alan McVitty, Welwyn Garden CityBring back BR now for everyone’s sake.
Michael Holleran, Newton-le-WillowsI saw a sticker in Oxford Road gents, so you know it’s worked at least once.
Chris Jones, LetchworthBritish Rail, though cash-starved, was actually very efficient. Rail costs after privatisation are running at 20% above inflation.
Ann Jarvis, DevizesThe sooner our rail network, or fragmented network, is re-nationalised the better.
Andy McDougall, HitchinTime to end this ridiculously wasteful and expensive experiment.
Michael Friend, DartmouthRailways should be run as an affordable service for all people, not just for shareholders and to provide luxury for expense account holders.
Richard Bell, DerbyThe private sector is responsible for some of the biggest economic health and safety disasters, whilst extorting the British public.
Julie GriggOur railways are a disgrace now, expensive and too full of people to be safe, unless you are in first class.
Mary Leneis, AbingdonI’m sick and tired of dealing with a private monopoly. Either diversify carriers or bring back British Rail.
John Cooper, SheffieldYes, re-nationalise the railways.
Moira Collett, ColchesterIt’s a no-brainer if you want the best for Britain.
Olaya De La Iglesia, NorwichPrivatisation has been shown not to work time and time again. We want a service free from the shackles of profit-making for the shareholders.
Michael Atkinson, SheffieldThe privatised network results in a sterile environment in which profit comes before anything else.
William Coleman, EdinburghEvery public company that has been privatised works well but only for the avaricious money moguls who prey on ordinary people’s complacency.
Paul Mackney, LondonBring the British rail system under state ownership and democratic control.
Calum Menzies, GlasgowI’m disgruntled at a system where foreign state-owned companies can profiteer from our trains, but our government can’t operate a nationalised service.
Sylvia Swann, ScarboroughWe need a reliable economic system to take freight off the roads and provide affordable travel for passengers.
Mary Lennon, ManchesterMy uncle and grand-dad both worked as signalmen on British Rail – so in their memories I’m signing the petition. My uncle said privatisation was the worst thing that ever happened.
John Adkins, St AustellVote Labour and do it.
Paul Herwin, Canterbury£250 Ashford to Birmingham peak. Cheaper to go day before off-peak advance and get hotel. £100 in fact so extra money going to hotel not railway.
Liaqat Ali, SloughPrivatisation has only put profits first. They are mismanaging and not considering passenger needs and safety issues.
Dominic Gook, BasingstokeBring it back.
Peter Moore, LondonAbsolutely. Take our railways back! Common sense, surely? Urgent and so obvious now that we can clearly see the farrago that has emerged with privatisation.
David Bellamy, MexboroughBring British Rail back I worked under BR and we all worked together for the good of the railway.
Andrew Lee, SalisburyBring back public owned British Rail.
David Stokes, MacclesfieldDivide and rule is stated by Nicolo Machiavelli in The Prince as the way to beat the opposition. So 100 companies is clear evidence of the Tory Plan?
David Rossiter, LondonPrivatisation has failed – it would be cheaper if it was owned by us. The farce needs to end.