Transport should be easy, effective and as cheap as feasible. How else do you clear the roads of pollution and chaos?

Andrew McKay, Downham Market

Unacceptable service at continually greater unacceptable prices. Please bring back British Rail.

Vikesh Mistry, London

Connex was a rubbish company which couldn’t run the railway, but no private company can do it!

Jonathan, Kent

Too expensive for such an unreliable service. The new increase is an absolute joke from out-of-touch people with no experience of the service.

Hannah Holroyd, Colchester

The current way is not working. Unification, nationalisation, organisation.

Julie Hills, Liverpool

27 years on the railway from the original British Rail to Vtec. How can you privatise East Coast who made millions for the government? Reverse the decision.

David Owen, Peterborough

Privatisation has been one of the biggest disasters of all time.

Brian Rattray, Aberdeen

The only ethical way to run any public transport system is for the public’s benefit and not shareholders’.

Leslie Anderson, Leeds

If it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it. An old saying but true in this case.

Brian Spurling, Harlow

Nationalise the railways.

Marion Grez, London

Bring back the old British Rail with one company working together, with connections forward linking with most journeys.

Steve Lawrence, Swindon

Railway privatisation – yet another failure of Tory dogma in action.

John Brooks, Canterbury

Scamming government national rail. Get rid of them.

Jamie Taitt, Surbiton

Bring back British Rail.

Nicholas Parry, Colchester

Drop HS2 plans.

David Singleton, Durham

People, not profit, should be the main criterion in running a rail transport service.

Keith Higham, Harpenden

Bring back British Rail.

Alan Butcher, Washington

Do the common sense thing and bring back British Rail for the people’s sake. Hopefully water and energy will follow suit.

Patrick Nunley, Rushden

Mass Transit systems around the world are subsidised or state-owned. Private ownership combines minimum service levels and maximum cost.

Ian Ellison, Northleach

Privatisation only works for shareholders, not passengers. Bring back BR.

Maryvonne Lumley, London

The current rail system is a mish-mash of over-priced, under-performing cash-cow for the shareholders. Let’s return to a joined-up service.

Wendy Turner, Nottingham

Bring it home!

Philip Bridges, Brighton

Since BR was privatised by the government it is now run by different companies. These companies hike up the fares every year and provide a poor service for high prices.

Eirug Griffiths, Neath

As a non-UK national living in the UK, I am shocked and disgusted at the outlandish prices and dreadful service UK customers are subjected to.

David Robert Grimes, Oxford

Let’s get back to passenger service again, getting away from chaos and utter stupid timetables and confused punters.

Trevor Waywell, Bedford

After years using a sub-par service including delays, cancellations, lack of seating, overcrowding and more I want to see our railways run for the public not private profit.

Heather Langford, Reading

Railways are a service, not for profiting shareholders with taxpayers’ money.

Colin Gill, Cambridge

Nationalise the railways and put it in the hands of the people.

Pete Ryan, Barnsley

As someone born in the cradle of railways, it appals me the way private companies rip off passengers. We need a united framework in public control.

John Madden, Darlington

Re-nationalise, for a rail service ran for the good of the people and not foreign millionaires.

Matthew Rogers, Yeovil