Roger Goodwin, HerefordThe cost of travelling by rail is pricing people out of using them. In a lot of cases, it is now cheaper to travel by car.
Ian Grant, SunderlandNot for profit.
Rob Jozefowski, ManchesterI’d love to join the cause. Nationalise now.
Christine Butler, MansfieldThe railways should be run for the benefit of people, not profiteering shareholders. Nothing has improved since privatisation, except their bank balances.
Frank Sturm, Bergen Op Zoom, NetherlandsI have read ‘Broken Rails’ by Christian Wolmar and I concur.
Rona Hendry, PeterboroughSense should prevail, not greedy governments lining the pockets of their own. It just beggars belief that we had a zero balance when it was sold off.
Simon Fisher, WakefieldPublic transport should be for the benefit of the public, affordable, clean, punctual and not used for private profit.
Linda Ringrose, NottinghamThe train is my favourite form of transport but now I’m retired train travel is a luxury that is becoming one I cannot afford.
Daniel Dowsing, BangorI want a public train service I can afford to use.
Edward Childs, RadlettI would like the government to justify its claim that our privatised railways are both more efficient and more cost-effective.
C Budzik, LondonBring Back Public Ownership.
Stephen Bellamy, IngatestoneI totally agree with re-uniting the national rail network.
George Kay, WiganIt’s been too long now. Come on. Bring British Rail back.
Spencer Green, OakhamThis is ridiculous. I pay £14.70 a day for my train to college and half the time the train is not even on time or there’s no seats and I have to stand up.
Dean Barker, SunderlandBBBR.
Mike D’ambrogio, LiverpoolI wish we could bring back British Rail trains and Inter City, Inter City Eurostar, British Rail ferries.
Tim Stevens, PeterboroughBR was a nationwide co-ordinated rail system. BR needed much less government subsidy than the current fragmented privatised system. Bring back BR.
Tim Mustin, Haywards HeathBring back British Rail. Southern Rail is a disgrace!
Ross Atherton, DunfermlineNationalise the railways.
Gail McGee, Bishop AucklandBring Back British Rail says it all.
Munir U, BedfordBring it back and simplify it, and stop greedy owners creaming it.
Alexia Johnson, SouthendFairer working times. Working a 13 day stint on a roster is not good for productivity.
Barry Marshall, SheffieldThe system was miles better under the old public British Rail. The franchise system in my opinion is just a shambles.
Peter Bradshaw, DarlingtonJust look at how good the East Coast mainline is since it has been taken out of private hands.
Jim Gavine, DundeeLet’s make a start by opposing the re-privatisation of East Coast and getting Miliband and co to support accordingly.
Duncan Campbell, MorpethSignaller for 25 years.
Corrie Hogenboom, GroningenAs it was always meant to be.
Frances McGinlay, LargsJust bring it back.
Daniel McCarty, SunderlandWe need a centrally-planned, efficiently-run railway again, run for the benefit of the people, and no more foreign-run franchises or shambles electrification projects.