Faith Hope Charity, ManchesterOur rail service is off the rails! The billions earmarked for the costly and environmentally destructive HS2 should be redirected into improving our current rundown system.
Stuart Hammond, Milton KeynesI just heard your spokeswoman, Ellie Harrison, on the Today programme this morning. Brilliant, but the pompous Waterman did it for you, trying to defend the indefensible.
Anne Keighley, ManchesterBring it back now.
Naomi Quinn, Greater ManchesterThe current system is a disgrace, with customers exploited and victimised for profit. Train companies use their legal advantage to extort huge sums for innocent mistakes.
Angela Hathaway, StroudRobbed from the people by Conservatives.
Brian Shepherd, LeedsJoined-up thinking, not piecemeal profit centres.
Aj Dehany, LondonWe pay far more in subsidies than we would if we just owned the railways. The service is disconnected and prohibitively expensive.
Nick Shelley, NottinghamHow absurd to break up an integrated organisation and sell it to private companies and to other state railway companies.
Tom Lovelock, LondonAs soon as possible.
Elizabeth Thomson, EdinburghWe want a re-unified national rail network run for people not private profit.
Peter Jeffries, Isle of WightBring it back into public ownership and expand. Roll back Beeching’s cuts. Isle of Wight needs a light railway desperately. Its been strangled by lack of a good railway.
Alan McDonald, CowdenbeathIt’s ours. The money-makers can’t run it right. Please give it back.
Moira Uddin, Berwick-upon-TweedI’ve just had the most appalling journey recently, with every leg of it fraught with rail company failings. Please bring back British Rail.
Peter Neal, RomfordBring back British Rail to keep fares down with profit going back into the railway and not to shareholders.
Shea Hopper, BournemouthThey shouldn’t have been sold off in the first place.
Ann Lerning, PrestonIt is time to bring back British Rail and it is time to stop privatising.
Lewis Stowe, CoventryBring it back in the name of, and in service to, the people of the United Kingdom.
David Pinder, RotherhamThe current private-run rail system is absurd and makes no sense. Let’s bring railways back into one public company.
Barbara Bates, ShildonYes, bring back British Rail.
Paul Barrow, BrightonAfter living in France and Italy and Germany and using the rail networks there, I fully support the re-nationalisation of our rail network. Our system is a farce.
Phillipa Partington, BedfordA simple, unified rail system with standardised fares has got to be better than the current complicated and still-inadequate rail provision we have.
Christine Skinner, LondonAs a student in the sixties I could travel from London to Brighton for a pound and. on occasions for an extra shilling (5p), travel on the famous Brighton Belle In luxury.
Lynda Russell, St Leonards-on-SeaPlease bring back the railways into public ownership.
Justin Cole, WarwickI’m sick of paying ridiculously high fares and having to tolerate consistently poor service.
Linda Phillips, CroydonAffordable transport is essential. Prices currently out of reach.
Celia Kelly, LiverpoolWell done Bring Back British Rail. Make sure people know about the huge subsidies the current providers get from us. It’s our railway.
Thomas, Newcastle-upon-TyneThe East Coast Mainline service improved after the Department of Transport took over with the LNER brand. It made me realise how crap Virgin was.
AntI lived in SE London for a long and happy time and used BR quite a lot on the way into town. Never was I late or felt unsafe. Privatising is a huge mistake. British Rail forever.
Tim Delaney, LowestoftIt’s obvious that the railways are being run for short-term private gain and not in the public interest.
Colin Bayly, SurbitonEast Coast shows it works. Please let common sense prevail.