Will Bale, Caerphillythe cost of rail travel in the UK is getting more expensive but is still increasingly inefficient. It should be re-nationalised.
Carol Milner, CoventryBring back British Rail.
Philip Whaites, ArringtonThe profits which would otherwise be given to shareholders can be ploughed back in investment in the rail infrastructure. The East Coast main line has made the point.
Peter Vahl, SuttonThis is supposed to be a public transport system and not the government’s and their fat cat friends’ profiteering play thing.
Mary Blundell, GranthamBeeching began the demise of the railways.
Ben Millis, LondonWe were passengers, then we were customers, now we are parasites. Nationalisation is progress.
Robert Knox, SheffieldBring it back! Private rail is a racket.
Ro Bell, KidderminsterThe East Coast service has proven the benefits of a nationalised rail service.
Raymond Watson, BingleyWe need a national approach as part of a national transport strategy with profits re-invested, not paid out to shareholders and meeting the overheads of private sector.
Nancy Sands, LondonI’m fed up with shareholders getting our hard-earned money, whilst we subsidise the train companies anyway.
Adam Schofield, TelfordA national industry would serve the paying public.
John Hinchliffe, LeedsMy dad was always an instinctive Tory, but the rush to privatisation in the 80s onwards turned him Labour but not quite as far left as me. I would nationalise all public services.
Chris Tugwell, WellingPrivatisation of the railways is a sham so that shareholders can make millions. We should re-invest in re-opening closed lines and bring back a real service.
David Grey, North ShieldsIt is madness that the profits from Britain’s vital infrastructure (and utilities) go to foreign owners when they should be re-invested in Britain and its workforce.
Christopher O’Hara, GlasgowBring it back, as all the profit is going out of the industry and into the back pockets of the share holders.
Frances Townley, BirminghamGood idea.
Tom Constable, CaithnessWe’re passengers, not customers and we need one good service, not a wasteful bunch of businesses.
Conrad Bower, ManchesterAll hail, British Rail.
Michael Spurden, YorkThe privatised fragmentation of British Rail cannot be called other than a total and unmitigated disaster. It has cost us dearly, in money and in lives.
Dawn Curtis, LiskeardAs a regular user of British railways and a British citizen I want British Rail to belong to the great British public.
Stella Thomas, Hebden BridgeWe need all our public services to be nationalised. Let’s start with the railways.
Ian Brown, CheadleThey should never have been privatised. Public transport should be a public service, for the benefit of the passengers, not for the subsidised profit of a few shareholders.
George EverettBorn in privatisation, will live to see the day when British Rail is brought back.
Ruth Atkinson-Wilks, BristolI just tried to book a day return journey to take my son to London for the day (leaving after 9.30am) in 3 weeks time and the cheapest option was £60. This is shocking.
Simon Eason-Brookes, StockportI hate corporate greed.
Dennis Browne, PeterboroughGive it back and stop privatising. We own it, the people of the United Kingdom.
Christine Isherwood, MacclesfieldI have watched a well-documented TV series – East Coast railway. It’s a great argument for nationalisation of Britain’s railways, with fulfilled, hard-working employees.
Neil Turner, BridgendIt has been one of our most disastrous and pointless privatisations, contradicted by such a large proportion of the TOCs being owned by other countries’ state transport.
Thomas Stacey, RuthinReturn railways and service industries to public ownership, for the benefit of the people of the UK and not foreign-owned businesses.
Jackie Davidson, SittingbourneBring back BR for a better service which will also save the country money.