I want value for money: £4,000 a year and no seat.

Lisa Morley, Margate

The state-owned SNCF in France is fast, efficient, affordable and reliable. Pull your finger out Britain and copy this world class model.

Matt Campbell, Leeds

Obviously an automatic monopoly can’t be a private industry, honestly.

Joseph Maser-Clarke, Brighton

Ticket price variations are too confusing and expensive

Mark Parker, Thatcham

All essential services should be nationalised. That’s rail, water, energy, post office, and schools under local authority control.

Sylvia Coles, Nottingham

Common sense and expert railway knowledge have ceded to a misguided dysfunctional railway system that other countries view with disbelief.

Bernard Kennedy, Bristol

People deserve a safe, reliable rail service that is affordable.

John Farrar, Stoke-on-Trent

And then the bus services, and then gas and electricity.

Michael Taylor, Leicester

State profits, not individual profiteers.

Duncan Crighton, Dundee

A service and a public good for people, not profit.

Scott Macdonald, Edinburgh

Re-nationalise the railways and the utilities. Prosecute the spivs!

Bill Pearson, London

Since Deutsche Bahn took over Chiltern Railways, it has fallen from the best operators to one of the worst. The whole system is collapsing. We need re-nationalisation now.

William Howells, Great Missenden

We have an absolute mess now.

Denise Smith, Exeter

The state of National Rail is absolutely appalling.

Bree Allen, Harrogate

I certainly think that the railways should be taken back into public ownership.

Harry Curtis, Nottingham

Take it back and don’t waste millions on making the London to Birmingham run quicker. It is not needed.

Pip Banham, Norwich

Privatisation rejected by Margaret Thatcher. But John Major pushed it through – with the most ridiculous structure anyone could have devised.

Mike Evans, Leominster

we need consistent investment not rely on run down stock.uk railways are a joke compared with Europeans.

Cathy Scoffield, Barnstaple

Bring it back pronto.

Chris Simo, Manchester

Please bring back British Rail and reinstate some of the old lines to reconnect the country.

Diane Berry, Withernsea

Run for the benefit if the people not a few shareholders.

David Mullin, Preston

They should never have been privatised. It is costing the taxpayer far too much and fares are unacceptably high. We are at the mercy of privateers.

Simon Harris, Mansfield

Re-nationalise. The current service is by no means reflected by the price we pay.

Ian Stainthorp, Leyland

I’d love to join the cause. Nationalise now.

Rob Jozefowski, Manchester

The franchising system doesn’t work and needs to be nationalised.

Noordad Aziz, Great Harwood

Bring it back.

William Hedges, Thatcham

I’m fed up with the fees we have to pay to get around a country this small! £50(with railcard) for a London return! The profit that the private companies make is scandalous!

Martyn Mitchell, Wellington

With a better pricing strategy we can open the arteries to the cities and towns, moving the work force better and reducing the carbon footprint.

Richard Grant, Long Eaton

Bring back British Rail to save our railways.

Shirley Clough, Blackpool