If Labour would make a commitment to this, I’m positive that they’d boost their poll ratings overnight.

Robin Orton, Norwich

We need to stop governments selling off our British services to other countries. Make our railways British again.

Paula Du Luc, Redhill

I want to travel by train as it’s more relaxing and safer. I can work and it produces low emissions, but the high price of tickets prevents me from doing the right thing.

Scott Herrett, Edinburgh

I’m generally just peeved with the whole current set up with the railways from franchises to Network Rail.

Richard Sutcliffe, Elland

Fingers crossed.

David Massie, Aberdeen

Railways should be run by the people for the people.

James Parmenter, March

Centrally-planned, paid for by the taxpayer but not for profit. A great British network for a great British people. Together we can make it happen.

James Lyon, Liverpool

Stop privatisation of a service being well run and profitable.

Jennifer Zass-Ogilvie, Durham

Severe lack of peak time trains (e.g. back/forth Brighton) and also lack of scheduling with local bus services, makes getting to work time-consuming, expensive and awful.

N Zaidi, Brighton

I totally agree with the railways being returned to the public sector. I find it amazing that we are paying the private sector public money to run our railways.

Ron McLean, Moffat

Disgusting filthy overpriced overcrowded, totally unreliable, like Hell incarnated as public transport.

Andrew Shefford, Gillingham

Should be run for customers not shareholders.

Brian Bailey, Manchester

What we have now is shambolic and has been ever since they split it. We need a re-joined rail network, with a slew of newly re-opened stations, especially in Middlewich.

Charlotte Peters Rock, Knutsford

The idea is that people get to travel, but who can afford to go anywhere? Surely the economy would improve if it were cheaper to get from A to B.

Mike Kerins, Manchester

I agree with Jeremy Corbyn. British Rail.

Derek Richardson, South Queensferry

At last – a movement that will bring BR back into public hands.

Linda Green, Sheffield

Rip-off Britain. See it by rail, if only you could afford to.

Alan Rimmer, Fleetwood

Reverse the Tory money-grabbing agenda.

Huw Jones, Faversham

Privatised rail companies are a joke. Prices have consistently risen above inflation and the service has not improved. It costs more for a return ticket for petrol.

Adrian Bryan, Norwich

Better for Britain. Nationalise all utilities.

Jon Brown, Morecambe

Bring the railways back into our hands and let our economy benefit.

David Roberts, Scarborough

We are fed up with all these fat cats which are lining their pockets with lots of money. Let the people run the railways and you will see the improvements they bring.

Claudia Bultman, Gravesend

Take a utility out of profiteers’ hands for the benefit of the people.

Andy Boyd, Edinburgh

I wholeheartedly agree with your aims. Ex-British Rail employee, took voluntary redundancy in disgust after privatisation. RIP Bob Crow and John Green.

Stephen Williams, Ashford, Kent

French railways are nationalised and are generally considered better than ours. Why not ours?

Les Leckie, Cheadle

A totally integrated system makes much more sense.

Lindsay McDougall, Cramlington

We need less fragmentation of services. East Coast line shows again what public ownership achieves for the benefit of all.

Denis Rice, Nottingham

At least with BR fares were easier and timetables made sense. It just needed someone who cared to run it, and not into the ground.

Kathleen Stapley, Nottingham

Southern Railway demonstrates exactly why we should bring back British Rail.

Nigel Street, Emsworth

I am old enough to remember the days when British Rail ran the railways, and I can tell you it was run better in those days than it is now.

Frances Moran, London