I hate Virgin and First.

Rowan Crawshaw, Caernarfon

Public transport run for the public.

Martin Bane, Brighton

Absolute joke Virgin – the trains are outdated and falling to bits.

Steven Hinchliffe, Huddersfield

Public ownership is essential for our health and well-being. Rail and all methods of transport realise these needs.

Alan Sykes, Bradford

The current system is uniquely stupid. Dogma should not be the starting point for delivering such a vital public service.

Noel Inge, Harrold, Beds

Privatised rail companies charge us twice. We the taxpayers pay for their subsidies then have to pay their extortionate fares.

Geoff Lange, Gosport

Privatisation has not improved any of our services and the fares keep increasing. They are all in it for profit and their customers who have to rely on these services are not served well.

Marie Mcguirl, Clacton-on-Sea

Bring back the big blue trains.

Donald Hutchison, Penzance

I’d like to see the disintegrated industry of ROSCOs and operators unified into one, employee-owned trust.

Rowan Bell, Nottingham

I agree, we want British Rail back as the train services today are rubbish.

Colin Flowerday

Absolute Economic Sense

Jacob Tong, London

I always thought Labour should re-nationalise all our services as well as BR.

Eunice Wormald, Nuneaton

Passengers before profit.

Lee Warner, York

The biggest mistake was to privatise the railways. I am a working volunteer on heritage rail and grandson of an LNER staff member from Stockton station.

David Buttle, Winchester

Extortionate prices, extremely shitty services. Shareholders rubbing their hands together and smirking. That sums up national rail pretty well.

Kane Pawlina, Chelmsford

The fare structure is ridiculously complex and the prices are a rip-off. Competition has achieved nothing for the ordinary traveller.

David Gutteridge, Chesterfield

Give the railways back, and get freight off the roads.

Judith McFarlane, Bedford

Transport should not be privatised. Look at the mess it has become when accountability is to shareholders instead of to passengers.

K Dietz, Dunbar

Good campaign. There seems to be an error in your leaflet though. Check consistency of global co2 emissions numbers.

Martin Farmer, Brighton

It’s all such a muddle and a complete shambles at the moment. We want it back as it was please.

Wend

It definitely should happen.

Andrew Thomas, Bolton

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

Kieran Murphy, Hemel Hempstead

I believe private sector has successfully shaken up and re-vitalised this previously semi-dormant form of public transport. So now it’s time it went back into public hands.

Martin Dallaghan, Manchester

It’s time to bring in 24hr manned and serviced stations too.

Stephen Wearden, Lancaster

Overcrowding and poor service on CrossCountry. Too much emphasis on profits and not enough on passenger interests.

Timothy Gregory, Deepcar, Sheffield

The current situation is ridiculous. Prices go up and the service doesn’t improve.

John Bramhall, Newbury

The privatisation of our railways was designed to allow ‘foreign state run’ railways to bid to run our franchises

Frank Nicholas Adam

It should never have been privatised and now it’s gone to ruin, no money has been spent on it and all has been banked for the owners.

Patricia Wilson, Merseyside

Travelling on Continental railways frequently, I am ashamed of the complexity of our ticketing systems here; they’re nonsense and exploitative.

Patrick Hanmer, Nottingham

The old British Rail service was preferable to the abject misery I get most weekends on my line.

Jason Fernee, Billericay