Hazel O’DBring back British Rail.
Simon Cullen, SudburyIt’s disgusting what the rail system has become. It’s got to a stage where public transport is squeezing the public, for whom the prices are ridiculous for such poor service
Dennison Packer, CanterburyPrices are extortionate. The Government wants people to stop driving solo so should make public transport more affordable.
Dorothy Joyce Cox, PooleKeep to one company not several in competition.
Owen Thomson, AberdeenThese vultures are burning far more public money than BR ever did (and it’s all going into private pockets.)
Barbara Kennard, RytonWe need railways that can be a source of national pride. This cannot be realistically achieved through profit-focused privatisation.
Amyan Macfadyen, SheffieldThe splitting into private companies was a disastrous mistake. Reverse it.
Alex Stocker, BristolEnough profiteering, let’s get our social railway back and serve the people who really need it, as well as those who choose to.
Michael Moloney, BanffAbout time, the profiteering rather than service idea makes me sick as a previous employee, now retired.
Julie Brownlie, DawlishWe need a nationalised railway because being able to travel easily around the country for work and leisure is a necessity that ordinary people are being priced out of.
Susan Francis, ChesterfieldIt needs to be done now before we own absolutely nothing and everyone holding us to ransom.
Jean-Marie Avril, CheltenhamPrivatisation sucks in England.
Ken Kirk, BrightonWe have the most subsidised railway and the highest fares – all to feed private profit. That’s madness.
David Green, LondonNot only should we re-nationalise the railway network, but we must also bring back into the public sector the whole transport industry.
Colin Snow, ChelmsfordI’m already signed up with East Coast following excellent service between Kings Cross to and from Inverness this year.
Bryn Kinnaird, AmmanfordPrivatisation of British Rail has benefited only the wealthy and we have a poorer service as a result of this privatisation.
Nick Monaghan, CastlefordRe-nationalisation is the right and only way to bring the railways back to a real form of public transport, accessible to and affordable by everyone.
Graham Race, ManchesterThe pillaging of our rail network has to stop. Re-investment, modernisation and sustainability are the only way forward.
Allan Hedley, CumbriaPrivatisation was a very big mistake. It’s just making massive profits for the operating companies which should be ploughed back into the network.
Andrew Morrison, SheffieldThe most expensive rail network in Europe by far. Enough is enough. It’s time to take it back off the ‘fat cats’.
Michael Connole, RotherhamI would like to see British Rail nationalised so that a proper structure of management, engineers and workers can be put in place to deliver an ethical service.
Kevin Michael, GovilonNone of the main parties is discussing this wholly sensible option, yet poll after poll shows that this course of action is favoured by many people in Britain.
Diane Johnstone, CleethorpesI want complete re-nationalisation of the railways.
Raymond Kerstetter, LondonI actually reside in the US, but have friends in the UK, and have used the trains many a time. I’m all for decent travel.
Patrick Clarke, LondonThe current system is an expensive and incohesive shambles.
Lynda Rooke, BristolI travel regularly on rail. Yesterday was a prime example – air conditioning not working, delays, dirty train and slower journey time than the 1970’s.
Ben Cowell, West YorkshireThe railways were a great parting gift of the Conservative government before they left in 1997 and now, more than ever, it is clear it simply just does not work.
Terry Thompson, NewarkThe East Coast line has shown the private failures how to make a profit.
John Gilmartin, SuttonI’ve never seen such a tight-run service – appalling, overcrowded, overpriced, unreliable. Sort it out.
Jamie Evetts, Milton KeynesTo re-nationalise the Railway under British Rail and build and design British locomotives and British rolling stock and British Multi units again.