Bring it back.

David Tait, Barrhead

The Neo-liberal experiment has failed, catastrophically. Bring back public ownership of all public services.

Philip Thomson, Dalry

The railway should not just be for the rich. It has been priced out of the ordinary person’s reach. It should never have been privatised. The only winners are the shareholders.

Angela Carter, Walton-on-Thames

Britain deserves a decent, homogenous rail network. Bring back British Rail.

Barbara Stewart, Colchester

As a First Capital Connect victim, I fully support your aims.

Alison Parker, Enfield

British Railwas more publicly orientated and less just out for profit. It just makes for an awful railway system.

Justin Cryer, Weston-super-Mare

A commonsense idea that really does need to be put into practice.

Brian Jones, Bradford

Who ever thought privatisation was a good idea in the first place? Profits for shareholders usually mean corners cut in the service.

Neil Beecham, Leeds

It should never have been stolen from us in the first place.

Leon Maurice-Jones, London

As usual all the profits going to shareholders, with users left with dangerously crowded trains with tickets at criminal prices.

James Banville, Woking

Lets at least keep Directly Operated Railways on the East Coast public not privatised.

John Page, Hertford

Nothing else makes sense.

Christopher Madeley, Abergavenny

Drop HS2 plans.

David Singleton, Durham

How can they take away what is rightfully ours in the first place? It’s the same with everything else that has been sold off.

Mick Rix, Northumberland

What would BR look like now if all the money wasted in privatisation had been invested in BR.

Peter Fisher, York

It’s got to be a joke the overcrowding on London trains and the regular price rises above the rate of inflation. Yet shareholders get returns and bosses get bonuses.

Jackie Smith, London

The system as it is now is a bloody mess and one big massive rip-off.

Paul Lenihan, London

Railways are for the people, not the Tory millionaire shareholders.

Melbourne Chadwick, Sheffield

We need to adhere to the European standard. We subsidise it in any case. In France, Belgium etc. there are clean fast trains that run on time.

Mona Johnson, Stockport

Expand our railways to where people need to go and not just where it is profitable. Get people off the roads and save the environment. Bring back and expand motor-rail too.

O J Donnelly, Aldershot

It should never have been privatised.

Kenneth Jones, Treherbert

Better for all. British Rail must be put back into public ownership.

Gary Linney, York

I was an employee during the late 1980s, working at Euston House and Rail House Euston for British Rail.

Jane Mcguigan, Watford

I’m old enough to remember just getting the train to go somewhere and getting there for a fair price without hassle, and without having to buy a ticket six weeks in advance.

Stephen Godden, Port Talbot

Why give money to privateers to bail them out when we can unify the railways and make a profit like the state owned East Coast mainline.

Graham Shipman, Retford

Affordable travel for all.

Christopher R Wintle, Birmingham

Can we have a society in which people matter first please?

Ian Middlehurst, Sunbury on Thames

Season ticket costs are unsustainable – complete 21st Century re-think of UK railways NFP funding model required.

Neville Redvers-Mutton, Ramsgate

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

Service not profit.

Robert Jones, Birmingham