I travelled by steam train to school. It”s the best way to travel if only they were better organised.

Free market capitalism is not the answer to everything and is certainly not the optimal solution to how a country should provide essential services to its population.

Just when East Coast was moving into profit it was stolen again.

Keep up the good work and let me know if you need volunteers.

Something like this needs to be under one umbrella to make sure things run smoothly and be sure that maintenance is properly carried out on a regular basis.

Fallacy of competition improving service and reducing costs thoroughly falsified by our extortionate rail system.

Privatisation hasn’t worked. Nationalise now.

Keeping the rail nationalised helps bring money in and provides better service. Privatisation doesn’t work. Capitalism only serves a few. Return to humanity.

It should be run by people for the people not for the rich and greedy.

I never understood why taxpayers pay private rail operators to take passengers’ money, with no gain to the taxpayer.

Privatised railways put profit before passengers. The result is unreliable, expensive services which are less safe. Public ownership is the only cure for this disaster.

Please bring back the nation’s railways. We need to reach rural areas. People will volunteer to help get it back up and running.

I think it’s disgusting that we are still paying high taxes for services that are slowly being sold off. The government is a joke.

Bring back BR.

Then we might have a suitable rail service near us.

So we gave it a go and it failed us all. Bring back British Rail.

It should be back to government control. There are too many privateers and profit-seekers.

I’m a student and the prices of trains are extortionate, especially for cramped and delayed services. I often have to travel to London for fieldwork and it’s food or work.

We need a model like the East Coast Mainline where money does not go to private shareholders.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Since moving back into public ownership the East Coast line is thriving once more. Nothing more needs saying really.

The sooner the rail service is out of the hands of greedy shareholders, the better.

I believe in an integrated system that is owned by the government, not a fragmented railway.

We’re being subject to legalised robbery. HS2 will bring more of the same. Fat profits and a service priced for the rich or on expenses.

Private profit never serves people.

Re-nationalise British Rail.

I agree in principle to the railways being in public ownership. Credit must be given for improvements in frequency and quality of service, which we don’t want to lose.

Please put rail users’ needs before greedy shareholders’ demands for profit. Other countries do.

In 1948 the Government of the day had to nationalise the railways to keep them operating. That time has returned.

The free market has not worked, so let’s get back to what did.

The success of East Coast since de-privatisation makes the point better than any rhetoric. Now do it for them all.