We shouldn’t have to wait this long before we get back what was once ours.

Jim Granter, Alsager

It should be a transport system, not a profit organisation for a few cowboy bus operators.

Gary Sell, Darlington

You cannot run a national rail system the way it’s being done. Passengers and taxpayers are being ripped off.

Peter Williams, Bexhill-on-Sea

Bring it back to the people.

Alan Clare, Boston

No a la privatizaci

Francis Badillo, Ronda, Spain

BR has got to be better!

John Linge, Dover

You can count on the Tory Party to sell off the family silver and hand over the profits to the private sector.

Patricia Mack, Ware

I’m fed up with being ripped off by the likes of First Capital Connect, an absolutely useless profiteering company who put profits ”first”.

Paul Sparks

Needs to be done sooner rather than later. Most expensive public transport in Europe.

Philip Kane, London

Privatisation has been shown not to work time and time again. We want a service free from the shackles of profit-making for the shareholders.

Olaya De La Iglesia, Norwich

Nineteen years of commuting – and rail is by far the best, but no longer the cheapest way.

Michael Wilson, Bexhill-on-Sea

Currently we have the worst privatisation. The loss of British Rail started the robbery from the people to the powerful.

Ian Enters, Sheffield

Trains are dangerously overcrowded due to carriage formations being woefully short at peak times. Everyone is back in the office as normal post Covid. Arriva must go!

Gemma Holmes, Thame

I’ve just travelled back from Germany and I am clearly envious of their equivalent of BR. If they can do it, then we can do the same.

Richard Treloar, Portsmouth

Rail travel needs to be nationalised, prices reduced and services improved so that more people will be encouraged to get out of their cars.

Gwenno Williams, Glamorgan

Bring back British Rail, so the profits go back into the system, and not into somebody’s pocket. We had a great service from Norwich to London Liverpool St. before.

Steven Sayer, Norwich

People not prices.

Bill Reay, Leicester

Privatisation has made things both worse and more expensive for the passenger and all the profits go to off-shore companies that pay very little tax.

Paul Southcott, York

Public Transport should be just that, run for the public by the public, but we have got to get it right. The Germans can do it, so why can’t we?

Suki Jones, Portsmouth

Bring back a rail company that actually cares for its passengers and employees.

Jordan Walker, Darwen

I agree with this idea. Let’s have a joined-up rail system run for the people.

Ron Lawley, Haywards Heath

I worked for British Rail and took great pride in this, as did all of my colleagues. When it was privatised I left my job. British Rail was stolen from the people.

Cate Murray, Kirkcudbright

What profit is made should go into government exchequers not privately run companies.

Janette Holt, Guisborough

It’s about time we shut down this bunch of crooks.

Bill Walker, Lye

Bring back British Rail, run by the people for the people at a profit for the people not private business.

Derek Wagstaff, Plymouth

Privatisation has failed us. Why should we give them more money for a poorer service?

George Harvey, Bury St Edmunds

Private companies have been ripping off the public for far too long.

Robert Lowery, Seaham

New Labour proved their closet Tory credentials by not re-nationalising the railways as soon as they were elected in the 90’s.

Jeremy Pavier, Ipswich

Extortionate prices, no seats and no competition. Bring back British Rail.

Julie Holland, Sunbury

I’m sick of this.

Jack Thompson, Reading