Restore the public service, reverse loading of costs on passengers, invest in public transport as a real national asset for everyone.

Geoff Dunbar, Torquay

Bring back BR and let’s get rid of these MPs that are ruining this country. Privatisation doesn’t work and never will.

Raymond Batchelor, Shildon

Please, please can we have our` railway back. It makes sense financially and in terms of organisation and customer service.

Jane Little, Liverpool

We need a unified railway system. We need to acknowledge the environmental and public ownership benefits and run it for the public good, not for private profit.

Andrea Byrom, Leeds

Railways too important to be left to private profit. Bring back British Rail.

Brian Newbold, Oakham

If British Railways had received subsidies equivalent to those now received by the Train Operating Companies, we would still have the finest railway system in the world.

Alan Tingle

What a crazy rail system we have now, astonishingly complicated, unfathomable. It’s better coffee than there used to be though.

Sally Morris, Wakefield

Railways are awful – never get a seat. Prices are ridiculous.

Adrian Gaffney, Wolverhampton

East Coast line has been a success since put back in government control. Don’t throw that away now.

Brian Sowerby, Huddersfield

You can count on the Tory Party to sell off the family silver and hand over the profits to the private sector.

Patricia Mack, Ware

I would like to see the rail system under public ownership, with a promise of constant investment, and not left to run down.

Philip Wallace, Swindon

Bring it back!

Susan Paget, Glasgow

South West Trains are a joke, as are many other corporations I’m sure! Bring back the rail system that we were once proud to call our own.

Justin Bailey, Guildford

It needs to happen.

Mitch Wyatt, Raynes Park

I use the train daily to Leicester and a good portion of my wages goes on train tickets for a poorly run service.

Adam Smith, Nottingham

End the farce and re-nationalise the railways. I travel to and from Cumbria by train and have never arrived on time in any direction. Also the fares are so expensive,

Glyn Jones, Dartford

As a daily rail user, this has to happen.

Ian Ashleigh, East Grinstead

Another example of the rape of this country by Westminster.

Reynold Hutchinson, Berwick-upon-Tweed

I’m fed up with Southern Rail delaying and cancelling trains, constantly making me late for work.

Nathan Baigent-West, Littlehampton

We need a good reliable, reasonable travel network to support and reduce the amount of traffic on our congested road network.

Linda Walker, Birmingham

Let’s share the efficiencies and the profits – not just the abyss of subsidies. Fair shares for all.

Maureen Hunter, Cleator Moor

DOR have shown with East Coast how it can be done, but despite this the Coalition are dogmatically pursuing more failing privatisations. Unbelievable.

Peter Cowan, Spalding

Enough is enough.

Oliver Bailey, Bagshot

You will put a lot of people out of work and shatter people’s lives. Keep it as East Coast please.

Shelley Beckett, South Shields

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! But the UK rail system is broke and the only way to fix it is to re-nationalise it.

Geoffrey Knipe, Peterborough

Bring Back BR.

Mahmoud Cassim, Tranent

It should be a public service not a profit-making organisation.

Tate Matthews, Chertsey

Let’s make sure Jeremy Corbyn has the power to do this.

Neil Roberts, Dewsbury

Rail privatisation has been a disaster.

Roger Chiswick, Huddersfield