Let’s get back to a rational co-ordinated transport system.

John Hoyle, Kettering

Privatisation has failed. Poor service poor value – need I say more! Also as an example East Coast mainline was fantastic last time it was put back under state control.

Tania Tucker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Bring back British Rail.

Keith Chambers, Southport

The continual dropping of standards, quality of service and reduction of safety while ramping up prices has to stop.

Nick Sharp, St Neots

Yes Bring Back British Rail.

Charles Lewis, Edinburgh

I am a regular rail traveller and service has never been so expensive and poor.

Keith Forrest, Liverpool

We want British Rail back for better services.

Dylan Hartley, Sheffield

I’m fed up with packed trains and delays – so many extra passengers are now travelling into London but still the same services from 15 years ago. No wonder it’s falling apart.

Lisa Alder, Beckenham

Higher fares, more taxpayer subsidy, equals shareholder payout or to foreign railway operators.

Kenneth Marshall, Colchester

Let’s bring sense back at last.

Sheila Lovett, Newton Abbot

Just do it.

Gordon Reid, Exeter

Public transport should be a service, not a cash cow.

Douglas Raith, Edinburgh

Return all privatised services to full public ownership and management.

James Bennett, Northampton

ex-Tinsley Diesel Maintenance Depot.

Chris Holmes, Colchester

British Rail should belong to the people and not private investors.

Credwyn Livesey, Peterborough

The kind of people who complain about the bureaucracy of the EU are the same kind of people who designed the Byzantine complexity of Britain’s privatised railway.

Terry Grimley, Birmingham

They shouldn’t have been sold off in the first place.

Shea Hopper, Bournemouth

Just one word. Argh.

Rebecca Steventon,

Bring back loco-hauled trains. Reduce speeds for better comfort. No to HS2.

Paul O’Neill, London

A rail service can’t be the best if it has to consider profits for shareholders.

Mary Clowes, Kilmarnock

Public transport should be run for the benefit of the country, not shareholders.

John Evans, Billericay

We need to return to an integrated rail system that puts its customers and employees first.

Neill Hendry, Henley-on-Thames

Last year not a single train I travelled on with GWR was on time.

David Tigwell

Privatisation of publicly owned assets is theft.

Colin Nicholson, Edinburgh

Bring back British Rail.

Mitch Harrison, Bolton

I believed then and I believe now that BR should never have been privatised. Everything I forecast would happen has come true.

Christopher Wade, Grimsby

They’re not just privatising everything they can get their hands on. They’re closing all former nationalised industries. A socialist programme of action is the only answer.

Peter Farrell, Tunbridge Wells

Bring back British Rail.

David Cottrell, Cromer

Many of the private rail companies are foreign national rail networks, so it would better be one British Rail.

Richard Waltereit, Whitley Bay

What’s happened to British Rail – it used to be cheaper, easier and happier to let the train take the strain.

Amber Smithwhite, Paignton