20 years of failure and prices are the most expensive in Europe, to line the pockets of greedy fat cats. No more. Let’s run this for the people by the people to benefit all.

Sean Walker, Glasgow

Bring back nationalisation to reduce fares and generate more revenue for the Country.

Steve Hardy, Rhyl

Please bring back British Rail to the British people who already pay for it. At the moment it lines fat cats’ pockets.

Georgina Norton, Sandbach

Stop ripping us off.

Raymond McIlreavy, Bonnybridge

Essential services should all be nationalised.

Christine Platford, Brighton

Please re-nationalise the railways.

Colin Naisbitt, Stockton-on-Tees

Re-nationalise now.

Huw Akiba-Jones, Exmouth

UK government – betrayer, liar, murderer.

William Andrew, Hartlepool

Enough is enough.

Richard Jones, Plymouth

We need a railway system run for passengers, not for profit. Also run for environmental reasons.

Lesley Tompkins, Leeds

Let’s stop this private greed and get back on the right tracks. Public transport.

Phillip Corbett, Harwich

Please bring back British Rail.

Cindy Sullivan, London

The present system is inefficient and wastes money. It’s time for change.

Michael Heslop, Durham

We need a reliable economic system to take freight off the roads and provide affordable travel for passengers.

Sylvia Swann, Scarborough

Let’s get people out of their cars and back onto cheap public transport.

Jonathan Chalcraft, Brighton

Nationalising rail would reduce pollution and reduce traffic through reasonable pricing. Many birds one stone

Alexis Mr, Amesbury

Billions wasted in annual share dividends which could be used to improve rail service.

Gary Tallant, Liversedge

The current system is an expensive, overpriced mess. We have the highest fares in Europe. Re-nationalisation has to happen now.

Andrew Smith, Galashiels

The East Coast Mainline better than everywhere else. Enough said.

Kieran Murphy, Hemel Hempstead

Re-nationalise the railways and make them better. There are too many top bosses getting crazy pay and bonuses which should be used to improve the network.

Steve Adie, Carlisle

We moaned about the trains when it was government-run, but the alternative is worse.

John Sullivan, Glastonbury

Let the public own the railways.

Simon Barker, Hertfordshire

All privatisation results in the government subsidising private profit and ripping off the consumer.

James Franks, Stoke Gifford

Bring back our national railway service.

Sam Spinks, Norwich

The private system is shockingly badly run. We need a government to run it without greedy eyes on profit.

Tommy Geddes, Liverpool

We need a genuine public / worker co-operative and not a railway run by civil servants.

Steve Waldenberg, Leeds

It’s about time multimillionaires in parliament remembered they work for us. They don’t rule us. They should do something we want for once, not what their rich mates want.

Alan Fawcett, Stafford

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

Bringing back British Rail from the privatised mess it is now and preserving the NHS are the two crucial duties of our generation.

Oliver Drew, Bath