Dominic Gook, BasingstokeBring it back.
Carolyn Saunders, Stoke-on-TrentA country-wide rail system needs a single national point of control and investment.
Fiona Ruth Law, YorkBritish Rail must be a public service run by a public not a private company.
Mark Williams, ManchesterYes please!
James Westfield, WokinghamI have had to grow up with the shambles of a railway system that remains today. It’s time to re-nationalise, to make fares cheaper and give Britain a railway to be proud of.
David Kaye, CambridgeYes – and every time a new company takes over, that fat cats leave with their fat options.
Suki Jones, PortsmouthPublic Transport should be just that, run for the public by the public, but we have got to get it right. The Germans can do it, so why can’t we?
Margaret Alderton, Stockton-on-TeesI am fed up with everything once British being sold off to any other country. We shortly will have no control.
Steven Feven-Parsons, PlymouthI have wanted this for 27 years now.
Jonathan Burton, ScarboroughI am a regular rail traveller, not just on one network. The lack of a cohesive policy and co-operation between the different companies is shameful.
Andrei Woodgate, DunstableThe Conservative party created this situation and are now not doing anything to protect the consumer from profiteering rail barons. Everyone needs to know this.
John Richards, ChristchurchIt took ‘vision’ to establish a national railway system, but it was blindness that took it apart. Are we willing to ‘see’ again?
Lesley Few, DurhamMajor should never have done this. A lot of the companies are just out to make big salaries for themselves and aren’t bothered about giving a good service to the country.
Kassra Yazdani, LancasterFirst class carriages may as well all be standard class, especially when you don’t get everything advertised.
Diane Lindsay, OrmskirkMy son works 12 hour shifts in Manchester and Northern Rail have made this unbearable, very close to undoable.
William Harris, ManchesterRail transport should be counted as a social service.
John Cant, EdinburghOur railways are a huge national asset and should be run to minimise road and air use and promote other social and environmental benefits, not run for profit.
George Symes-Davidson, PlymouthThe rail service is terrible and tickets are too expensive. It costs me less in fuel and insurance combined to get most places in my car, instead of using rail.
Giulio Isernia, Cremona, ItalyThe main people transport has to be public.
Michael Bolsover, TrefriwTfL boast of their not-for-profit status. The rest of us deserve a not-for-profit service too.
Paul Owenson, NottinghamSave our railway.
Jack Coleman, CrawleyThe fair from Crawley to London is £35, for a distance of only 30 miles. This is unacceptable.
Carl WillsTime has not treated the lies cast against British Rail kindly. Privatisation was a folly to rival Brexit, brought to us by liars and cheats only interested in themselves.
Graham Pascall, MilngavieIt’s not just the public face of the railways that requires attention but the massively inefficient situation behind the scenes in signalling design etc.
Carol Munro, BournemouthBuying train tickets is far too complicated and confusing.
Linda Milk, East DerehamI used to love rail travel, but it’s so complicated just buying a ticket these days that it totally puts me off. I haven’t been for over 20 years.
Kim Fergus, WirralIf trains are re-nationalised, I believe fares will be cheaper for ordinary people and public organisations. It would be better for health, environment and personal finance.
Bethany White, SouthamptonMake rail fares fair.
Mike Christy, StroudThe railways are a service. We should put service before profit.
Maggie Corder, YorkOutrageous rises in fares every year – to pay shareholders – make rail travel impossible for many people. The most expensive fares in Europe, if not the world.