Gary Dowling, PlymouthPublic services are not for profit. Any surplus should be used for reinvestment and to employ as many staff as it takes to run a safe service.
Paul Lockett, BristolBring back passenger care. If we had invested this much money in BR we would have had a world leading railway, not the fragmented one we have now.
Stephen Hanna, ReadingProfits over progress, these scumbags have to be stopped.
Richard Jowett, BradfordI am sick of the private railways being a mechanism to transfer money from taxpayers to shareholders.
Daniel Ward, SuttonBring Back BR.
Jayne Fowler, AshfordThe Labour Party have got to back this and make it happen.
Christopher O’Hara, GlasgowBring it back, as all the profit is going out of the industry and into the back pockets of the share holders.
Ryan Wilson, LondonFully supported.
Robert Boyd, GlasgowStop the fares rip-off. Bring back under government control.
John Price, LiverpoolBring it back.
Robin Wilde, KegworthTrains are the only way I’ll be able to see my girlfriend for the next three years – but I’d rather not pay through the nose.
Michael Letwin, Brooklyn NYPrivatisation is not progress.
Harvey Booker, Burgess HillPrivate companies are bleeding off farepayers’ and taxpayers’ money for profit, with no benefits for passengers.
Chris and Rosemary Staddon, NottinghamOur rail network needs coherence which is not possible with too many privatised bits
Richard Lane, YorkThe privateers have had their chance and shown us what they do with a ‘small state’. It’s time to take our country back.
Jack Duckworth, SheffieldSadly it’s cheaper to drive nowadays. And ours are far more costly than any train line in Europe. There’s great infrastructure there so I’m all for making it a public company.
Zahra Massey, KnaresboroughTrains are way too expensive.
James WoodmanPrivatisation, fragmentation, subcontracting, internal markets, franchising, managers, managers, managers, jobs for the boys… Rip-off Britain!
Swatantra Nandanwar, BasildonLets get British Rail back on track after the disaster of privatisation.
Robert Danvers-Wright, SittingbourneThese are our services, paid for by our taxes, this sort of privatisation should be illegal.
Nic Szeremeta, TorquayGiving a country’s infrastructure to profiteers is a bad joke.
Wendy Bennett, WallaseyGet it back for the people of the UK.
Kristina Burns, LeicesterNationalise the UK rail system.
Enid Dalton, County DurhamBring back BR and the age of the train.
Alan Hird, BasingstokeThat Tory bodged-up privatisation was absolutely diabolical and wrong.
Dale Barnard, GlasgowI’m tired of over-priced, under-staffed and sub-standard train services, while the senior executives get large bonuses and travel in luxury cars. BBBR.
Joe Duncombe, RochfordPrices constantly rising, with services getting worse. I’m fairly certain that these private companies have a monopoly and that a monopoly is illegal.
Antony Johnston, LeedsThe success of East Coast since de-privatisation makes the point better than any rhetoric. Now do it for them all.
Gillian Malouf, StockportCross Country now use the Trainline to service their website and have suddenly started charging £1 to collect tickets from the self service station machines.
Clare Rickard, IlfracombeI’m disgusted by the expense and service of private rail providers and believe that all public transport should be nationalised, not for private profit.