Your Views - Bring Back British Rail

They should never have been privatised. Who’s going to pick up the £35billion I wonder? The poor old taxpayer of course.

Peter Begley, Swindon

Southwest Trains are crooks.

Paul Sheppard, London

Re-nationalise the railways. They never should have been privatised in the first place.

John Yonker, London

A national service should be in place which is run efficiently and fairly, where profit is secondary to customer service.

David Rice, Ipswich

Rail travel is only for the well-off and needs to be brought back into public ownership so we can all afford it. It would make the world a safer and cleaner place as well.

Martin Reeve, Newton Abbot

Bring back British Rail.

Damien McGauley, London

Rail fares increase, subsidies higher than ever, privatisation in its current form is abysmal.

Andrew Dolan, Peterborough

We need to maintain a core of public services which create a sense of shared ownership and shared benefit. Water, energy, health, education cannot be open to profiteers.

Sean Millwood, Stevenage

There are few jobs in my home town which is only one hour from London by rail. However, few can take up jobs in London because of the exorbitant rail fares.

Jude Davies, Grantham

While prices rocket, the train service quality is getting lower and lower. UK needs to look at other countries’ train services.

Nikhil Reji, Preston

All in favour.

Liam Bailey, Southend-on-Sea

No more franchises.

John Mathew, Manchester

A no-brainer to stop the passenger rip-offs for shareholders’ profits.

Mick Burbidge, Grimsby

Eventually the powers that be will see sense and they will bring back British Rail, an organisation we can all be proud of.

Rich Mottershaw, Cheshire

Give us back our stuff.

Liam Bright, London

Fairer prices and a better service please. Stop feeding the fat cats.

Gavin Lashley, Edinburgh

Every government should be in control of basic services: healthcare, energy and transport. Only one remains public, barely. Let’s bring all back to being public.

Martina Arata, London

British Rail was reliable. I don’t use the trains very much any more, but when I do I have yet to have a smooth journey.

Shirl Andrews, Wigan

All services used by the public should be publicly owned – People not profit.

Miriam Jones, London

Fares are high and service low.

Graham Scrivens

The current service Luton to London is appalling. It needs to be re-nationalised and run for the benefit of the travelling public and not shareholders.

Simon Groom, Luton