Glyn Pope, BarryI am at a complete loss as to why we have these different companies. People should be encouraged to use public transport, to save the pollution of their own cars.
Esme Zarins, NewburyIt was so much better before privatisation.
Lindsay McDowell, LeedsThey were good old days. Where I live you could get a train and go a long way on it.
Dan Ross, CardiffTrains in Europe are vastly superior and about a fifth of the price. Trains should cost less than flights and make people consider not driving. Add carriages and slash fares..
Richard Partridge, WellingboroughI fully support re-nationalisation – let’s get our railway back and improve it.
Darren Filkins, LondonThese days it is cheaper for me to travel by car than by train. This is just wrong. The train should be the transport of the people, helping us all get on with our lives.
Jonathan Brown, LondonWe currently have a disjointed patchwork of private interests dictating the provision of rail services in accordance with the profit motive. I want to see a collectively owned system that is affordable to all!
William Paddock, EdinburghIf only British Rail had got the subsidies all these private railway companies receive, what a network we could have had.
Rhisiart Williams, CardiffGet the Swiss in to run the railways for us.
Peter Mason, WickfordThe price into London these days is crazy.
Owen Cowells, LothianBBBR now.
Veronica Haines, LlanelliThe network should be rationalised and expanded.
Joanne Turner, CamberleyBring back British Rail.
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.
Graham Triggs, StevenagePrivatisation is a disaster. Franchises awarded based on false claims of returns, and not on value and service.
Dennis Warwick, Burley-in-WharfedaleI am a former porter on BR in 1949-50. I would like the railways back in public ownership.
Hywel Phillips, ReadingThe privatised railways are a total mess. Re-nationalise and run them as a public service, like, say, the roads.
Rowan Bell, NottinghamI’d like to see the disintegrated industry of ROSCOs and operators unified into one, employee-owned trust.
Matthew Edwards, LondonStop the great train fare robbery. Bring back accountability and stop giving taxpayers’ money to private companies to do what British Rail did far better for far less.
Andy Broadey, ManchesterI am for an efficient, punctual publicly-run rail service, rather than the monopolies of private service providers we currently have, charging inflated prices.
Robbie Rudge, Glaston, RutlandBring it back into public ownership right now. If the East Coast services can do it, the rest of the network can. Public transport for the public.
Margaret HuntAbout ticket pricing. I had to tell USA tourists why I had a saver return ticket with seat (£12) to London & they paid £92+ each to stand.
Eira Short, RochdaleI would love to be able to take my son on a train to London in the same way as my parents took me. We need a public transport system.
Peter Josling, ArleseyExpand the network and take the lorries off the road. Get all containers transported by train.
Iain Macleod-Brudenell, NottinghamI support the re-formation of British Rail. The current un-unified service has caused me numerous problems
Jon Veal, Newcastle-upon-TyneGNER, National Express and now Virgin Trains have ripped off customers on the East Coast Mainline, a service that was profitable and functioning fine until it was sold again.
Isabel White, LondonShareholders take money out and contribute nothing. Spend that money where it is needed.
John Murdy, Lytham St AnnesThey should never have been privatised. The railway has been in decline ever since.
Joe Tait, SouthamptonRe-nationalise it now – the sooner the better.
Claire Crowley, EdinburghLetting our railways be run by foreign companies just means that the profits will go on improving their own rail networks instead of ours.