Martin Edwards, NottinghamWe need a unified network on a not-for-profit basis.
Phillip Pritchard, EdgbastonWe need an integrated national rail system. It is the only rational answer to the current chaos.
Andrew Clark, Barrow in FurnessWhy does it cost seven times more to get a train from Barrow to London than it does to get a plane from Manchester to Spain? This is unacceptable.
Lauren Hellicar, BrightonBecause this just isn’t working.
Sandra Hurst, SuttonThe private companies are only interested in profit, not the customer. Stop all subsidies and contracts to them and bring back British Rail.
David Williams, StamfordIt couldn’t be worse than it is now. Where are the bigger trains we were promised 30 years ago? It’s still horrible on our line.
Roy Hearne, ShenfieldPublic Transport should be a fundamental right of passage, not a luxury. I would use the train more, and my car less, if I wasn’t going to be ripped-off.
Catherine Wilson, CampbeltownHopefully we will have a nationalised railway company in an independent Scotland.
Lorena Shaw, StirlingThe prices have become outrageous.
Paul Hutchins, ExeterStriving to make Britain Great again.
Aaron Tyler-Childs, LlandudnoI believe as a nation state-ownership would benefit the people who travel of the railway. The railway would be stronger and more efficient like it once was.
Brian RacherThe public transport system must be attractive enough to leave your car at home, thereby helping to save the planet.
Malcolm Clements, BarnsleyRailways should be an affordable service and not for private profit.
Ed Mander, BridgwaterBring back British Rail.
Gill Cookson, Sennen CoveRe-nationalising the railways is the only rational solution.
Richard Firth, North ShieldsAs the son of a railwayman please restore British Rail to being one national company.
Steven Harland, BradfordThe Tories privatised a lot of things from Maggie Thatcher onwards. The biggest mistake was our railway. It’s not British now. It’s time to buy it back.
Nicholas Bennett, SouthamptonIt’s time to end privatised Britain and return to the ideology and practicalities that once made this country great.
Tom Voute, PurleyPrivatising the railway system was a very expensive mistake, only done for ideological reasons.
Rosie Roberts, EastbourneOutrage.
Michael Riches, WymondhamReturn the rail network to public ownership, not shareholders.
Robert Michael Dobbing, DoncasterPublic transport, the energy companies, the water services, postal and the prison/probation services should never be in private hands run for the profit of shareholders.
Robert Cartwright, AltonThe figures speak for themselves..
Alan Whittaker, Llanelli, CarmarthenshirePrivatisation doesn’t work. The time to re-nationalise is now. Our railways are nearly all state-owned, but the problem is, that they are foreign states that own them.
Phil SimpsonAll the train companies employ an army of people whose sole purpose is to argue about the attribution of delays – not to improve performance, just to save money.
Paul George, BrightonLet’s get our railways as good as the French.
David Preece, Bishop’s FromeThe success of East Coast line in public ownership speaks for itself.
Barrie Anderson, WareI’m sure a re-nationalised railway would be better value for the taxpayer. Cut out all the overpaid lawyers writing unnecessary contracts between too many businesses.
Liz O’Brien, LondonStop privatising the railways.
Michael Bramley, SkiptonHopeless franchise process continually adding to ticket prices.