Michael Keirl, SunderlandThis is an essential and common sense idea.
Graeme McMullen, LondonIt’s time to run a railway for people instead of private profit.
Maire Wilcox, CalstockPut people before profits and see what happens.
Stephen Riley, ClevelandA complete and utter shambles caused by incompetent and corrupt politicians.
Emily Ormerod, OxfordRe-nationalise British Rail and re-connect with the bus timetable so that people can plan an entire journey as we used to.
Louise Devlin, GlasgowOverpriced, late, with intimidating staff at ScotRail. One bad apple rots the whole cart.
Lesley Ward, ManchesterThe trains are old, dirty and late or cancelled.
George Povey, BathTrains suck at the moment. Constant delays, tickets cost an insane amount even with a Railcard and they are poorly maintained.
Angela Dignan, SheffieldWe used to have decent, relatively affordable and accountable public services such as rail before the days of privatisation with shoddy service and sky-high prices.
Steve Black, SouthamptonIt was lunacy to privatise in the first place. Railways should be for the public good – for people not profit.
Bobby Webb, ManchesterDo it for the good of the people, not for private profit.
Liam Bailey, Southend-on-SeaAll in favour.
Nicole Hopson, BraintreePlease come back. The privatised Abellio is appallingly bad and exceptionally overpriced.
Linda Hunt, ColchesterNothing has worked properly since privatisation.
Patrick Hilley, KeighleyGreat idea, about time.
Ian Keeling, SheffieldHold these companies to the contracts they sign and, when they fail, don’t bail them out, but put the lines back into public ownership.
Maretta Rees, CrawleyEvery national asset that has been privatised appears to have been sold off on the cheap and it then becomes a very bad service.
Chris Roffey, LondonFor too long, far too much public-funded subsidy has been given to the privatised rail companies and Network Rail, whilst Margaret Thatcher starved BR. Bring back BR now.
Wayne Bloomfield, DagenhamOver-priced fares, hardly any seats when I travel to and from London. Privatisation has become more of a joke than it did with British Rail. Bring back BR.
Michael Nash, FetchamWe need a co-ordinated national network for the benefit of passengers and fright, with any profits going back into the network, not shareholders’ pockets.
Tony Coughlan, YorkI’m sick to the back teeth of my monthly train ticket going up in price every single year for work. I’ll join this cause.
Robin Clark, BrightonI want a large organisation to run the rolling stock as well as track maintenance. It just makes sense.
Annie Weatherly-Barton, SpaldingBring back British Rail into public ownership. It’s a disgusting rip-off in privatised hands.
Arthur Bond, FromeThe sooner the better. Privatisation has only benefitted the shareholders. Never mind what the passengers have to suffer.
Richard Connell, LeedsRailways should be run for public benefit rather than private profit. The current fragmented and micro-managed network can never achieve this, and needs re-integration.
Margaret Foster, HitchinOther countries manage their transport systems with nationalised, integrated services. Some of them even own some of our railway networks. Surely we could do the same?
Peter Boggett, CardiffBring back a modernised high-speed network and a unified BR, get rid of Network Rail and micro government interference.
Robert Meyrick, NottinghamPrivatisation has been a disaster for passengers (not customers). Let common sense overcome ideology.
John Hobday, BristolPublic transport should be based on service and not profit-making for shareholders.
Steven Owen, CambridgeThe railways should obviously be re-nationalised, and because of the franchise system it would cost nothing to do so. A government doing this would pull in the votes.