Keep East Coast Trains in public ownership and add also Greater Anglia and First Capital Connect.

Alan Thomson, Ware

The sooner the better. Stop the wreckers.

Alan Johnson, Largs

Re-nationalise the railways! Proof of the pudding is East Coast Mainline. Nationalisation does and can work.

Clive Glaister, Slough

I cannot remember the last time I had an enjoyable journey on a train in this country. Too busy, ridiculous prices, always delayed, missed connections. It’s a joke.

Rebecca Rimmer, Newbury

The profit from running the railways should be used to reduce fares and improve the infrastructure.

Jeffrey Spencer, Newton Aycliffe

The prices are beyond a joke. An end to privatised railway services must come.

Christopher Thomson, Chelmsford

Change needs to happen.

Kerry Holmes, London

We currently subsidise the rail network more heavily than we did when we owned it yet they still make a profit. That’s our money and it should be re-invested.

Glyn Morgan, Liverpool

I fully agree.

Tony Atkin, Grantham

I hate how the UK’s train network is falling to bits.

Nik Devlin, London

Please bring back the British Rail for those that need it for transportation. It’s hard enough getting reliable transportation over here.

Christina Sundborg, Yakima

Fast transport ensures easy mobility of people and their goods. In the future it’s important for the Tanzanian government to look upon its railway networks.

Hudson Godwin, Arusha, Tanzania

It’s time to stop rewarding shareholders for underfunding our transport.

Anne Vivian-Smith, Nottingham

One railway is all we need.

Keven Matthews, Halstead

Being a child that grew up on the railway when it was still BR, I have a particular interest in seeing our declining railways return back to being run by the Government.

Lisa Trendall, Lowestoft, Suffolk

A rail service where passengers are valued, instead of being ripped off to line the pockets of the already obscenely rich.

Hilary Hunt, Market Overton

It’s disgusting that other national rail networks are subsidised in order to make profits that could be going towards our own government. BBBR.

Richard Wilson, London

Privatisation has led to annual fare rises far outstripping inflation, minimal investment, massive subsidy, increased bureaucracy, no real improvements. It has failed.

Peter Fleming, Dunstable

To say I am heartbroken that my former employer was really bad is an understatement. BRITISH Rail was the greatest nationalised railway in the world.

Mark Dunwell, Leeds

Bring back BR for a better service which will also save the country money.

Jackie Davidson, Sittingbourne

Bring back passenger care. If we had invested this much money in BR we would have had a world leading railway, not the fragmented one we have now.

Paul Lockett, Bristol

Stop privatising and franchising everything. Transport should be for the people, not shareholders.

Simon Templar, London

Welcome back British Rail.

Maureen Brookman, Sutton, Surrey

Reverse the Tory money-grabbing agenda.

Huw Jones, Faversham

British taxpayers should own British Rail, not French taxpayers or private investors.

Dorothy Granville, Middlesbrough

The madness that was privatisation needs to be reversed as soon as possible, not just the railways but all the utilities as well, as these things should all be publicly owned.

Philip Watson, St Ives

The idea that a market exists on the rail network is a fraudulent one. The British public are being fleeced to make a few shareholders wealthy.

Rob Mullender, London

The rail service should be a viable alternative to car travel but in reality the public are held to ransom by an extortion racket.

Anthony Hopkins, Bristol

Hopeless franchise process continually adding to ticket prices.

Michael Bramley, Skipton