Jim Aird, EdinburghBR should not have been privatised in the first place.
Paul Weekes, Gillingham, KentWe need to manufacture our own rolling stock as well and bring some design and engineering back, and not support foreign train builders.
Dave Johnson, BracknellNo-brainer.
Mary Wolf, CroydonRail for public service not for private profit, please.
Helen Flyn, PeterboroughYou knew where you stood with British Rail.
William Sun, LondonI hate franchises.
Joseph ShailRail belongs to those who work and ride it.
Hywel Morgan, LondonRead ‘The Permanent Way’ by David Hare.
George Osborne, WellsBring back BR.
Gavin Hudson, SheffieldI couldn’t take a job with a £7K pay rise because I would have had to travel to London two days a week, which made me £200 a month worse off even after the pay rise.
Richard Norris, HullFor too long the profits of these private companies have been fed back into the pockets of shareholders at the expense of the British public.
Brian Stephens, SunderlandTax payers paid for British Rail and they have a say in what to do with BR, not money grabbing MPs.
Nick Posford, RedhillTFL shows how one centralised control of a transport network can benefit passengers by keeping fares low and co-ordinating everything together.
Lindsay Hatherley, LampeterTransport is for all, not just the rich. Give us back what is ours.
Mark Day-Thomas, Milton KeynesBritish Rail should never have been broken up and sold off. Beeching only closed it all because he owned a road transport company. Criminal
Chris Dawson, Burnham-on-CrouchGreater Anglia is going from bad to worse.
Lorraine Ellison, LoughboroughA day out in London would be nice, but it’s too expensive for most folk.
Paul McGinty, Madrid, SpainI left UK because Thatcher came to power and was tearing the heart out of the country. Spain’s nationalised railway system is reliable, clean, comfy and cheap.
Ron Thomson, GlasgowThe irony of having other EU governments owning UK railways (inter alia) seems to have escaped the privateers.
Lorraine Martland, Milton KeynesWe need to bring the railways back to the people. It’s getting so that we can’t afford to go to work.
Alastair Gill, BrandestonIt’s high time we put an end to profiteering and put the passenger first again.
Julia Taylor, LeicesterBritain needs an efficient, unified, real service run to provide a high quality service, not an over-priced, disjointed railway system run for profit at our expense.
David Lancaster, YorkRail privatisation has been a disaster and the success of the East Coast mainline service in public ownership shows what can be achieved in the public interest.
Jonathan Dell, YorkBritish Rail branch lines are sorely missed by many.
Praveen Kumar Thampi, Chennai, IndiaThis is highly relevant in India, where the new dispensation is actively promoting privatisation of Indian Railways. Wishing you all the best in your endeavours..
Callum Hancock, StranraerI want to see the railways act like a service for passengers instead of a business for customers.
Mike Evans, LeominsterPrivatisation rejected by Margaret Thatcher. But John Major pushed it through – with the most ridiculous structure anyone could have devised.
Pete Boor, PenzanceRailways should be state-owned and a not-for-profit industry.
Amy Atkin, Hebden BridgeI frequently travel by Northern Rail on diesel train stock built in the 70s. They are run by Serco and Abellio, the latter company being owned by Dutch state rail.
Richard Royle, LancasterNo state subsidies for private operators to get rich at our expense.