Bring it back now.

Anne Keighley, Manchester

BR was best.

Paul Simonite, Wick

Rail travel should return to being owned by the people of the UK.

David And Sonia Crow, Bedford

Deliver good and affordable service so that everyone could benefit.

Irina Ozerkina, London

Half empty first class seats, standing only on certain routes with above inflation ticket prices. Compare East Coast financial figures with franchises. No contest.

Danny Kearney, London

Let’s see a return for trains being run as a customer service and not for private profit.

Nick Crago, Harlington

A new British Rail is a commonsense approach for a greener transport system for the UK.

Ahmed Desai, London

Please explain to me how sucking profits from previously nationalised businesses make them work better? The lessons of 70s have been learned. Reunite trains with the tracks.

Kevan Ogden, Chester-le-Street

While prices rocket, the train service quality is getting lower and lower. UK needs to look at other countries’ train services.

Nikhil Reji, Preston

Re-nationalise the railway and get rid of the gangsters who run it for their shareholders. Let’s get DB to run it. After all that is the German government, not shareholders.

David Yewdall, Blackpool

Please re-nationalise the railways.

David Palmer, Newbury

Re-nationalise the railways.

Chris Cooper, Worcester

The railways have got worse and worse and more and more expensive under privatisation. It should never have been put on the market.

Lynda Woodroffe, London

Stop selling our services to Germany and Holland. They wouldn’t like it if we interfered with their railways.

Stephanie Dearden, London

Railways are a social essential not a cash cow for foreign shareholders or vulture capitalists.

Gregory Collett, Lowestoft

British Rail was a fine institution. With the issues over high ticket prices and a rail network needing investment, the only way forward is to re-nationalise the industry.

Matthew Jason Brown, Cleethorpes

Put people above profits. We were once known around the world for having a great rail service. Stop selling the people’s property.

Peter Kimble, Luton

I support Caroline Lucas’s proposal to take each rail component back into public ownership as franchises finish. East Coast shows how much better it would be.

Steve Higgins, Leeds

I’m disgruntled with a sub-par train service.

Can Gencer, Twickenham

This is another example of politicians giving individuals increased power and influence to the unelected. Why?

Wilson Newbould, Livingston

We need a railway that is run for the benefit of the people not a few multi millionaires.

Philip Feakin, London

This campaign needs to show the press and politicians that re-nationalisation still has mass support.

Rafy Hay, London

Save the planet. Give us a better public transport system.

Mark Parsons, Bristol

Public ownership is in the people’s best interest to have a system that everyone can depend on.

Joe Meredith, Risca

I’m fed up with the mess of franchises that all seem to rip us off.

John Selby, London

We need an efficient and more extensive rail network comparable to fellow European countries.

Louise Mieszkian, Cambridge

Time to end this profiteering. Free markets are proving themselves an unsuitable way to run basic public infrastructure, as one would expect when the market is captive.

Tim Gomersall, Leeds

Time for a change. Commuters have increasingly been mugged off by the rail companies and Network Rail for too long.

Steve Cobb, Ashford

I travel by train a lot and it is very expensive now, I can remember the early ’90s train prices were fair. I think we should bring back British Rail.

Darren McNiven, Worthing

Rail services are only marginally better than when the line opened.

David Pointon, Scholar Green