Douglas Cook, PenzanceTransport is the business of us all and should not have been stolen for the sole benefit of shareholders.
Patrick Iredale, HockleyUK private rail companies receive more subsidies than British Rail ever did. I say re-nationalise the railways and run them to cover costs only.
Michael Perre, BeaumarisStop sending our money off-shore.
Harvey Upton, ElyIts high time we reversed the criminal corrupt theft of public assets (aka privatisation) by Tory criminal elites and their corporate funders.
Clive Nicks, YorkI agree in principle to the railways being in public ownership. Credit must be given for improvements in frequency and quality of service, which we don’t want to lose.
Tobias Summers, UxbridgeEnd the extortion of private companies due to privatisation. It has done more bad than good.
Jamie Zwaig, LondonChiltern is not fit for purpose, this has gone on too long.
Loraine Brown, GlasgowLet’s pay for a good service, not to line a private company’s coffers.
Alan Lovegrove, BracknellA system for the people not for profit is needed.
Andrew Clubb, AberdeenDoes this Government sell off their own family silver or just the country’s. They are catching up with Gordon Brown.
Ray Packham, Bradford-on-AvonPublic transport should not be run for private profit.
Norman Fellows, LondonThe rail network in the UK should be owned by the state.
Nick West, LondonIt makes total sense.
Kevin Flanagan, CambridgePrivatisation is a nightmare. It’s time to re-start some public services. Don’t let this happen to the NHS.
David Briggs, Westcliff-on-SeaNowadays I don’t even bother looking for a seat going to and from Paddington as there are never any. It is so not worth £50+ to be sat in a doorway for two hours.
Mary Wolf, CroydonRail for public service not for private profit, please.
Samuel Norsworthy, GosportStop and bring back the railways as they were. Villages have grown into towns and towns into cities.
Stephen Pacey, WorksopI’m old enough to remember BR, ergo I’m old enough to remember plenty of carriages and plenty of seats – and at a reasonable price.
Robert Birtwell, ChichesterLots of private firms seem to have decided not to stand on their own feet, but sponge off taxpayers. We want our railway back.
Steven Findlay, TarbertIt is madness to leave something as essential as the rail network in the hands of private operators, running it with the focus squarely on profit.
Christian Cox, ChichesterThe people who control such integral infrastructure in the country must answer directly to the people.
Richard Kent, ChardWe need to take public services back for the public from the private profiteers. Private finance initiative is really profit-for-the-few initiative.
Bernadette Urmston, WarringtonI hope this succeeds and is the first of many to be brought back under re-nationalisation, but with a better management structure.
Anita O’Mahoney-Hamilton, HenlowI’m fed up with cancelled trains.
Hector, CheshirePrivatisation has created a railway that in every conceivable way is truly an abomination.
James Thraves, HockleyIt was never a good idea to put the railways into private hands in the first place.
Henry Matthews, SalisburySouth West Trains are a joke. Bring back BR.
John Maynard, HarrogateSince we are paying billions every year to subsidise fat cat pay and shareholder dividends we might as well own it.
Peter Jeffries, Isle of WightBring it back into public ownership and expand. Roll back Beeching’s cuts. Isle of Wight needs a light railway desperately. Its been strangled by lack of a good railway.
Mike Robinson, TorpointAdopt the method put forward by the unions in 2005. Re-nationalise at expiry of contracts.