I totally agree with this idea of providing the country with a public rail service as opposed to providing ever increasing profits to rich fat cats.

Stella Yates, Warminster

Rail prices have become a joke. Re-nationalising this essential service is a brilliant idea so that people can make less use of their cars and more use of railways.

Gabriella Apicella, London

The sooner we get a public rail service, run for the benefit of the public rather than shareholders, the better.

Charles Reid, Leicester

Please bring back the concept of public service to British society.

Maurice James, St Albans

Tell me what I can do to help.

John Reeves, Edenbridge

We’re bringing back Great British Rail with Sir Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 to make the UK OK.

Paul Bright, Bournemouth

I use the train frequently and am disheartened at the decreasing levels of quality of all journeys. We need to standardise the whole network as it is a disgrace.

Lauren Hopkins, London

East Coast Rail was an exceptionally good service, reasonably priced and making a profit – so why hand it over to private enterprise?

Ian Davies, Edinburgh

We’ve tried global privatisation – look where it got us. Let’s return to publicly-owned local and national services run for the public good.

Jacqui Lewis, Hook

I have to use the train to get to and from work. They have used every excuse they can come up with.

Helen Cullivan, Hutton Brentwood

Isn’t it obvious?

Emma Robbins

Love this idea… Could be a massive help for the country!

Ryan, Cambridgeshire

Rail is the most extensive and universal form of public transport. So it needs to be publicly owned.

Mauro Ciaccio, Cambridge

Trains are necessary infrastructure for the good of the nation so should not be left in the hands of those who would bleed them dry to maximise profit.

Robin Mallinson, Hatfield

We are nothing but cows being milked dry. The British railway network is now nothing more than a private business with quarterly targets to meet at the expense of commuter.

Matt Wynne, Leeds

A non-privatised, national rail network is the backbone of any mature developed country.

Louise Scullion, Dundee

We need railways to provide public services not profit for millionaires.

Annabelle Killworth, Basildon

I’m signing this for my British friends.

Paul Joseph, Hyderabad

I work shifts and I’m fed up with sparse trains outside 9-5. I work in TV. Would you like it if I stopped your favourite programme because I had to get the last train?

Matt Kingsnorth, Chelmsford

Service before profit, not vice versa.

Kevin Mallam, Middlesbrough

The rail network should be run on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of all. There is too much money being made by private companies out of something that’s a necessity.

Kitty Schofield, Stockport

The East Coast line has shown the private failures how to make a profit.

Terry Thompson, Newark

It can’t happen soon enough.

David Patterson, Rotherham

Railways should be in the public domain because they offer (or should) a public service. The idea of making private profit from railways is ludicrous.

David Samuels, Bishop’s Stortford

Bring back British Rail. Privatisation has been a disaster.

Beryl Myers, Co. Durham

The fare prices for trains to and from my loved ones’ homes is completely unjust and simply a profiteering scheme that rips off the little guy. Disgusting.

Jack Coley, Bristol

I agree that we the people need to take it back from private ownership.

Chris Crossley, Sheffield

Fares are too expensive.

Geraldine McCarthy, Erith

East Coast is putting money back into the public purse rather than into profits for shareholders. That is as it should be. Every privatisation raises prices.

Theresa Marsden, Peterborough

Service not profit!

Adam Bloy, London