Cheryl Crane, USAHaving lived in Esher, Surrey years ago and used British Rail many, many times, I wholeheartedly support the folks who serve the public so well. I just wish, wish.
Robert Hawes, FavershamWhy do we have services that are owned by other countries’ national rail companies?
Lee Maybin, HitchinThe railways should be run as a national asset not a privatised money-making machine for shareholders.
Lynn Macgill, KeighleyAll public transport should be state-owned and state-run, at prices people can afford. Get cars off the road and people onto public transport.
Colin Baldwin, RickmansworthIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Jonathan Browning, LeedsFares are too high. We need stricter government regulations so there are no benefits for opting for a car over a train.
Christopher Marshall, HeanorBring BR back.
Richard Codling, EdinburghNational transport infrastructure should never have left public ownership. Any profit now should be re-invested in the infrastructure.
Chris Burrow, FalkirkIt’s shocking that the UK government is paying foreign governments to run our services, making huge profits.
Lesley Grahame, NorwichPlease support Caroline Lucas’s Rail Bill to bring contracts back in-house. 2nd reading 20th January 2017.
George McCart, CheltenhamPrivatisation is nothing more than a licence to spend taxpayers’ money on greedy shareholders.
Amanda Wickwar, LondonDitch the profiteering privateers and re-nationalise.
Thomas Lamb, MiddlewichPlease bring the rail network back into public ownership. Privatisation hasn’t worked in the interest of the general public..
Karen Barford, DorkingTrains delayed or cancelled from Dorking to London. I have been late or unable to get in to work at times.
Patrick Turner, LondonHaving numerous private rail companies did not work in the 19th century and still does not work in the 21st century.
Paul Toplis, CambridgeshireWe need a not-for-profit railway network and public transport system if we are to realise our environmental targets.
Anthony Cohn, LeedsEast Coast shows that nationalisation can work. I have used trains in many countries and our chaotic, privatised, piecemeal, non-integrated system is one of the worst.
Thomas Murphy, South Woodham FerrersBig delays at least 2 or 3 times a week not acceptable.
Laurence Eccles, BirminghamThe highest walk-on fares in the world and at least twice the subsidy British Rail used to get. Network Rail’s debt has now exceeded an eye-watering £30 billion!
Colin Keatley, PlymouthBring back British Rail.
Wes Taylor, HavantKeep Britain British.
Ned Lane, LeedsThe fares are just ridiculous.
Geoff Lamb, East GrinsteadAnd nationalise it as well.
Alex AlexandrowiczBritish Rail was not unfit for purpose, nor was it less functional than the privatised system, it was simply a political manoeuvre to benefit the rich.
Graeme Mclean, AberdeenPut service before profit.
Alexis Parrinder-Nicholls, LondonTrain prices are a robbery, and the increases just don’t stop. Hugely unaffordable, an hour on the train should cost an hour of minimum wage.
Jeremy Stein, LondonFree public transport for all.
Alan Whittaker, Llanelli, CarmarthenshirePrivatisation doesn’t work. The time to re-nationalise is now. Our railways are nearly all state-owned, but the problem is, that they are foreign states that own them.
Megan Forbes, WallaseyIt costs me £641 a year to get to work and the amount of times trains are delayed or cancelled with no bus replacement is ridiculous.
Oliver Laraman, WhitstableScrew the overpriced fares! We need re-nationalisation now.