I wish to join the growing number of people who want to make our train service unified.

Teresa Marshall, Gateshead

Services for people, not profits. No super railway – upgrade the existing one.

John Taylor, Ilkeston

BR should not have been privatised in the first place.

Jim Aird, Edinburgh

How about being able to travel across the country for less than it costs to fly to another country entirely?

Josh Cluderay, London

Bring back British Rail so that the service is first and foremost for the people, not primarily for private economic profit.

David Sutherland, Montrose

The cost of rail travel is too high.

Edwin Wilson, Ulverston

Why are we subsidising a rail network so that private companies make a profit?

Sarah Gregson, Oxford

I would very much support Caroline Lucas MP’s private member’s bill for each part of the railway to be brought back into public ownership as its franchise expires.

Jill Vogler, Leeds

This is long overdue. Rail should be a service for people, not businesses.

Wendy Bower, Sheffield

Bring it back.

William Clark, Brandon

It’s a long time coming.

Robert Bailey, Bristol

How can they take away what is rightfully ours in the first place? It’s the same with everything else that has been sold off.

Mick Rix, Northumberland

Please put Britain’s railways back to when we had the most efficient railways in Europe, i.e. when they were state run, like the majority of European ones are now.

Richard Lewis, Sheffield

Immediate re-nationalisaton of BR. Fairer fares, standard prices and no large payouts to fat cats.

Austin Pacitto, London

Re-nationalise.

Oscar Speed, Nottingham

Public service not private profit. It’s that simple.

Nigel McAdam, Manchester

Let’s get back to a joined up railway please.

Leslie Plumb, Leeds

Bring back sensible prices that don’t change the nearer you get to the date of departure.

Simon Haigh, York

Re-nationalise now.

Stephen Burrows, Manchester

No arguments left for privatisation. Consumers continuously suffer for corporate profits.

Kerry Brown, Sevenoaks

We need an integrated passenger-based service, not several private customer-based businesses. I use Amtrak in USA and it beats the pants off our railway system.

Eileen Brown, Coventry

I’m sick of paying all these backroom boys for being incompetent with their franchise biddings. Let’s have more money spent locally employing people in our stations.

Rhona Wyer, Upper Bangor

You know it makes sense.

H Christine Allott, Exeter

Give rail travel back to the passengers who use and need it. There’s enough gravy trains out there already.

Susan St John, London

The legacy of British Rail privatisation stands as a testament to systemic failure, marked by rising fares and declining service quality.

Barathan Kulothungan, Chelmsford

Public transport should be in public hands.

Kenny Brown, Fort William

I daily use trains and the prices keep going up and up and the service getting worse and worse. This should be non-profit and the government should be at the helm.

Anthony Davis, London

Hiking prices up is wrong and especially in view of the fiasco at Kings Cross Station this year. What a mess.

Anne Hayes, Chesterfield

Most of Europe’s governments subsidise their rail networks. Why not Britain?

David Brackley, Harrogate