Please come back. The privatised Abellio is appallingly bad and exceptionally overpriced.

Nicole Hopson, Braintree

Please bring back British Rail.

Cindy Sullivan, London

No more profiteering. Don’t hand private companies a monopoly.

Matthew Tiller, London

Let’s have an integrated railway.

Christopher Fox, Birmingham

Rail travel should be a public service, not a commodity for a handful of people to make economic gain at the expense of the majority.

Jessie James, Bristol

I want a proper integrated rail network not the dog’s breakfast we have now.

Tom Hill, East Molesey

I just watched Ellie Harrison report this story on RT Going Underground. She was very compelling so I decided to look her up online and join the petition.

Josine Griffiths, Nottingham

Admit defeat and put it back together.

June Finnie, Glasgow

Time to restore a national rail network. Privatisation has failed.

Richard Stakes, Scunthorpe

I lost my job and pension in 1993 as the Tories decimated BR in preparation for privatisation. My life can’t be fixed but the railways can.

Peter Lane, St Neots

Please bring back a service run for the passengers who use it, and abolish the system which is heavily subsidised by taxpayers to line shareholders’ pockets.

Richard Norman, Southampton

Let’s bring back the golden days of British Rail.

Karen Blakeley, Manchester

The only way that the railway works is to re-nationalise it. Put passengers before profit.

Jennifer Gray, Bristol

It could be done for nothing.

Anthony Roberts, London

Rail privatisation has caused me huge problems over the past sixteen years, primarily because the companies refuse to co-operate with each other over problems.

David Lockwood, Worcester

I’m tired of a rubbish and expensive service run mainly by non-British owned companies fleecing the public for profit.

J Spikings, London

Privatisation is almost always a rip-off for consumers.

Carol Hills, Stockton

Bring back British Rail for the good of the country and the fare-paying public.

Andrew Riseborough, Gillingham

Correct the disastrous selling-off of our national infrastructure.

Matthew Whale, London

Power to the people.

Charles Burgess, Eastbourne

We need to bring the railways back to the people. It’s getting so that we can’t afford to go to work.

Lorraine Martland, Milton Keynes

Rail fares are too expensive. Trains don’t run on time. It’s overdue for a change.

Kathleen Russell, Wetherby

The only part that has been privatised is the profit.

Jim Hamilton, Rowley Regis

I fully support the desire to bring back an international network serving Scotland and Wales and England, especially in Scotland.

David Muir, Glastonbury

If no-one was making a profit out of our railways, the income could be re-invested, creating a better rail system which would benefit everyone.

Maureen Sandland, York

You just have to look at the money these CEOs of TOCs pay themselves and the countries that the profits go back to just to see that private ownership is not the best.

Tony Armstrong, Doncaster

Public services are not for profit.

Mark Donoghue, Dartford

Bring back British Rail, a transport system for the people not the rich.

Kevin White, Haverfordwest

Make our transport a not-for-profit organisation. It make sense. Why are we paying businesses to run it?

Fraser Smalley, Morecambe

Get it brought back under one controlling body.

Kimberley Walker