People before profits!

Lee Garratt, Braunston

Public transport is for the public good, not private profit

Marcus Bonner, Hitchin

East Coast is working well – keep it public.

Julia Charlton, Newcastle upon Tyne

Privatisation doesn’t work for the public, only for the shareholders. Let’s get it back working for the public.

Kenneth Muschamp, Retford

Possibly the greatest example of a failed privatisation.

Derek Carter, Sunderland

Let’s have our National Transport System not for profit.

Graeme Dawes, Uckfield

The dis-aggregated British Rail does not work for passengers; it works for shareholders.

John Stephens, Bedford

Screw the overpriced fares! We need re-nationalisation now.

Oliver Laraman, Whitstable

Put the rail system back in public hands so we don’t keep getting ludicrous price increases that just don’t happen across the rest of Europe.

Jonathan Kirk, London

I’m so tired of expensive fares and terrible co-ordination between competing rail operators. Infrastructure should support the wider economy, not exploit it.

David White, Glasgow

Inability to run a rail franchise. Lack of investment.

Niall Garner, Witham

It’s too bloody expensive to buy a train ticket.

Francis Dalton, Bracknell

Enough of the lying idiots not providing a service. Enough. Ask your Parliamentary Candidates.

Robert Ughes, Worthing

Time to concentrate on what’s best for the travelling public not shareholders.

Michael Ramsey, Birmingham

I’m disgusted by soaring prices and over-complex pricing structures and services. It makes doing business in the UK harder and not using your car for leisure trips difficult

Marc Davis, London

Bring it back to British Rail.

Matthew Hewson, Louth

Everything that was privatised by the Tory slugs in the 80s and 90s should have been re-nationalised soon after.

Matt Murphy, Bristol

I rode British Rail for years visiting the UK. It was wonderful. This is a travesty and you should be ashamed.

Sharon Davis Green, USA

As a trainspotter, I would really like to see British Rail return. Fares are the worst part of privatisation in my opinion, they are high and inconsistent.

Verumignis, London

Privatisation has failed the passengers and serves only the shareholders of the rail companies. Re-nationalised and run efficiently East Coast line shows public success.

Simon Bell, Torpoint

Subsidise public transport, tax fuel.

Bill Holland, Manchester

Disgusting that foreign companies are shortlisted to run Welsh trains following Brexit. Let’s have a British company trading as British Rail.

Liz Humphreys, Oswestry

It’s blindingly obvious that if you have several dozen private companies running all parts of the rail system, a large chunk of income will be lost.

Gerald Milward-Oliver, Bradford-on-Avon

Public service not a profit making industry.

Richard Quigley, Birmingham

Prices have soared. Can people earning less than 15 grand a year actually afford the train for a day out or weekend away. No chance It’s too expensive.

Rob Clayton, Doncaster

Transport systems should not be owned by greedy private companies who have no interest in providing a service, only making money.

Mark Priest, Oldbury

Anything that looks after the people of this country and not lining the pockets of the greedy 1% gets my vote. It’s just common sense really.

Alan Notton, Essex

British Rail was better run.

Terry Knapton, Rotherham

Bring back a unified railway, then work towards a completely integrated public transport system, trains, buses and ferries.

Ann Ashby, Selby

Re-nationalise energy as well.

John Raynor, Luton