Cathy Scoffield, Barnstaplewe need consistent investment not rely on run down stock.uk railways are a joke compared with Europeans.
Susan McDermott, EdinburghYou have my full support. Good luck with the campaign.
David Phillips, EastbourneThe sooner the better.
Robert Naylor, MansfieldThe railways are a brilliant way to transport people and goods and belong to the people of Britain. This should never be in private hands.
Tim Rauscher, WienI am from Austria and Britain needs British Rail.
John Thompson, JarrowThe present situation is a shambles. The present East Coast line is cost-effective. Privatisation is not the answer any more.
Francis Dalton, BracknellIt’s too bloody expensive to buy a train ticket.
Elliot Ellison, BristolI’d happily pay more tax for a smoother, cheaper, nicer, national railway system.
Glynn Huggins, SevenoaksNow is the time to move forward and build on the past investments to create a real rail network, not a patchwork of unconnected ‘for profit’ companies.
Andrew Lombardi, EastleighPlease stop rail profits from going to non UK corporations and being used to subsidise non UK rail fares and investment in others’ infrastructure.
Kevin Gaylard, New MiltonBritain deserves better than the total shambles that privatisation was always going to be. Money for fat cats doesn’t provide a decent railway.
Andrew Webb, LondonCurrent arrangements are inefficient and over-complicated. There are better ways to spend government subsidy.
Oliver Heathcote, IpswichBritish Rail may have had its problems but nothing like the expensive muddle bequeathed to us by the Major government.
Brian Hurst, MansfieldThis system of privatisation is not working. It’s just greed followed by a poor service.
Stephen McVeigh, LondonI agree that the current system is expensive and deeply flawed.
Sebastian Hart, IpswichI’m a student and it’s so expensive to get home to see my family.
Marcus Gordon, MottinghamOur rail network is one of the worst in the developed world. It’s time that changed and private companies aren’t going to want to spend their profits on such a thing.
Mark Smith, LeicesterPrivatisation has not worked. Re-nationalise all essential industries (not only BR but all energy companies and local transport companies too).
Michael Prato, ExeterPublic transport is a common good best provided collectively at cost.
Lorraine Bignall, Westbury, WiltshireI miss the good old days of British Rail
Brian RacherIn an ideal world we would have an integrated transport system. Simple, straightforward and easy to reach your destination.
Thomas John Wheeler, DyfedCosts on the railways are out of control and the private operators are making artificial profits paid for by the taxpayer.
John Cornell Cornell, SheffieldWe need a not-for-profit, user-centred service with efficiency and effectiveness at its heart.
Colin FlowerdayI will be glad when the British Railways board is running all our railways again and Cameron gets six lace holes up his arse!
Sue Smith, CullomptonThe railways, water, gas, electricity and every other public service that has been privatised should be brought back.
Anthony Kelly, DerbyPut public service before shareholders’ profit.
Emma Yexley, HertfordWe are forced to travel in conditions that are illegal for cattle transportation.
Allan Jones, ElginThey should never have been privatised. The government conspired to make them look unprofitable at the time and also at the time of Beeching.
Robert Hawes, FavershamWhy do we have services that are owned by other countries’ national rail companies?
B J Gibbons, SouthamptonThe subsidies to the privatised companies are going into shareholders’ pockets. We need a properly integrated service. Only BR can do this.