N Zaidi, BrightonSevere lack of peak time trains (e.g. back/forth Brighton) and also lack of scheduling with local bus services, makes getting to work time-consuming, expensive and awful.
Thomas Sutton, DerbyshireI had to get the train down to London the other day and it cost well over £100. Crazy! Why would anybody take the train given a choice?
Lynda Edwards, NorwichWhy have separate train and track companies? No wonder passengers, who pay high fares, are being let down frequently.
Graham Armfield, WokingThe fact that the East Coast Mainline can run well at less of a cost to taxpayers shows how rail privatisation is conning us all.
Joe Cairns – Doran, BrightonNationalise more of the country. We all live here, not just the rich.
Lauren Hellicar, BrightonBecause this just isn’t working.
Michael Read, NottinghamWe are being ripped off.
Andrew Clark, Newton AbbotI’m sick and tired of the Great British Rail-fair robbery.
Michael McDonald, LivingstonWe need all train companies and Network Rail nationalised.
Jennifer Ross, BedlingtonInstead of subsidising shareholders, we should be making profits for the benefit of the entire population of the UK.
Malcolm Butt, LeedsMake railways public. No private profits.
Barbara Wilcox, WatfordGive the railways back to the people. There has been nothing but trouble since they were made private.
Sean Millwood, StevenageWe need to maintain a core of public services which create a sense of shared ownership and shared benefit. Water, energy, health, education cannot be open to profiteers.
Natasha Richards, SalfordIt just makes sense to do this.
Daniel Williamson, FifeI was born in 1999 so I never knew what the railway was like before privatisation, but it was probably better than it is now.
Janet McCormick, SeafordWe need a proper unified railway service.
Jake O’Leary, CheltenhamPrivate rail companies provide services that are over-priced and poorly run. Re-nationalise public transport and run it for people, not profit.
David Dennis, King’s LynnBring rail back to public ownership.
Joe Mullen, LiverpoolIt was better then anyway.
Margaret Havercroft, HarrogateKeep British Rail ours.
Sandra Salmons, WestburyI cannot see that privatisation has had any benefits for the travelling public, only to the heads of the companies who now draw off the profits.
Nick Shepley, CardiffRail is a natural monopoly and therefore all arguments in favour of marketisation are a complete nonsense.
Ian Hamilton, BramptonI think the cost of travelling by rail is enough comment.
Jon Hykin, OxfordI totally agree it should never have been privatised in the first place.
Elisabeth Kiener, Reepham, NorfolkRailways are too important to remain in private ownership.
Soizic De St John Rosse, TruroSort it out.
Stuart PartlettPlease. I can’t get a job and it’s too expensive to use the trains.
Jessica Oliver, Bognor RegisPrices are disgusting nowadays, even with my Railcard. Southern Rail are selfish and don’t care about their customers.
John Shale, WiganWhy give free money to privateers?
Brian Howes, BinghamPrivatisation has been a complete failure for the ordinary person in the UK, not only the railways, but anything else you care to name.