I love Virgin who have the west coast franchise. Their service is excellent – trains comfortable and staff outstanding. However, the rest is a mess.

Hazel Mayamba-Kasongo, Chester

Bring back British Rail.

Phil Hine, Manchester

Because it’s the best.

Andree Mehew, London

As an ex BR employee it makes a world of sense, as passengers would benefit over and over again.

Bruce Williams, Barmouth

Transport should be owned by the people and for the people, not by the politicians’ banker mates.

Richard Harris, Crowborough

We need a train service run for passengers not shareholders.

Steve Yeates, East Sussex

Arriva Trains Wales hands down the worst operators ever. Very expensive. Late and old trains which belong in a museum not the track.

Mark Edwards, Tywyn

I’m fed up with poor service and rising costs.

Diana Harman, Bexhill-on-Sea

The reason why the railways were privatised was because they were poorly managed.

David Marsh, London

And we want clean trains.

John Podger, Ware

Franchising services to First, South West Trains and other companies is totally pointless and costly.

M Godwin, Bath

The sooner, the better.

Sebastian Hughes, Preston

I rarely use rail travel because I find it chaotic and expensive. I wouldn’t mind that so much if it was good old British Railways muddling through.

John Parr, Fakenham

All public transport needs to be integrated.

Paul Nixon, Crewe

Please bring back British Rail and reinstate some of the old lines to reconnect the country.

Diane Berry, Withernsea

Not forgetting carriage cleaners. They all need bringing back in house too.

Paul Crookes, Dover

You know it makes sense.

Andy Mizzi, Morecambe

I’m sick of big business making all the money and leaving the tax payers (Network Rail) to foot the bill.

Ian Snipp, London

As a ex-driver on the railways in this country, it’s a shambles how it’s run and how the companies make so much profit off government bailouts.

Benjamin Joseph, Rosslare

Privatised rail has only resulted in complicated and highly expensive services.

Anita Maunsell, Newark

Because rail travel should be cheaper than travelling alone in a car.

Tamora Burn, Plymouth

Let’s bring it back into public ownership. Let’s just get people into work even if it runs at a loss.

Jeff Barratt, Croydon

I totally agree with all the comments. I’m sick of getting ripped off by privatised companies with late, packed, dirty trains.

John Dannell, Durham

Give back to the people.

Robert Wells, Leicester

I’m fed-up with poorly-run rail services and extortionate prices.

Holly Ashton, Chesterfield

This scrappy service is not worth the amount of money I spend on it.

Shannon Kilday, Glasgow

Please re-nationalise all the other railways and keep the East Coast public. The evidence is clear. It is so much better than the others.

Maureen Parnell, Edinburgh

Bring it back. It works for the people.

Mary T Johnston, Edinburgh

Unless we wake up, we’ll find that the whole planet is run by one global corporation, with all the remnants of democracy eliminated.

David Latimer

Public transport should always be socially-owned.

Ed Brown, Nottingham