Get rid of these damned psycho paint schemes and ugly new equipment.

Douglas Nash, Hamilton, USA

The time has come to end this greed of privatisation of our railways. Nationalisation will guarantee a price affordable for all, no more ludicrous price hikes.

Bill McIntosh, Slough

The railways were stolen from us. If you have shares in railway companies, you are in receipt of stolen goods.

Andrew Booth, Harrogate

Nationalise the railways.

Linda Long, London

Should never have been sold off by the robbing Tories.

Derek McCarthy, Inverness

If we live in a free country, how is it that many people cannot afford to get from one end of it to the other? The free market has failed and it’s time to re-nationalise.

Christopher Wilson-Cooch, Preston

Unity is strength.

Ralph Dyson, Doncaster

Enough is enough. Give us back our railways.

Mary Thomas, Plymouth

All sold-off businesses should be re-nationalised.

Vic Bagshaw, Stockport

Great Campaign. I fully support its ideals The Tories deliberately ran the railways into the ground through lack of funding in order to convince the public to privatise.

Steven White, Hull

Private it’s theirs Public it’s ours.

Paul Houldsworth, York

The privatisation experiment has failed. Rail transport is an integrated service essential to the economy and needs public ownership.

Tessa Gordziejko, Hebden Bridge

Bring back the British railway.

Sutharsan Raju, Bedford

Corporate profit-motive plus light-touch spineless regulation spells raw deal for consumers. Who knew?

Jean-Michel Legg, Shaftesbury

I believe in a better transport system for London. Profiteering from commuter misery leaves me sick in the gut. Third world transport system at first world prices must end.

Richard Reed, Reigate

The railways in the UK need to be brought into the 21st century. We need paperless, at cost, reliable travel, not the confusing, expensive and inefficiency we now have.

Ellen Blakemore, Brighton

Things are better run in public ownership, transparently and with no profiteering from private companies. Why did we get rid of British Rail?

Andre Bernal, London

British taxpayers paying to keep European fares low.

Thomas Johnston

We have an absolute mess now.

Denise Smith, Exeter

I wish a Government would nationalise the railways again. I remember before it was privatised. It wasn’t perfect but it was so much better than now.

Ena Stansfield, Nottingham

Another theft which needs to be sorted.

Nicola Godfrey, Inverness

National assets should not be sold off. We are laughed at by other countries.

Jerry Scales, Aylesbury

The Tories privatised a lot of things from Maggie Thatcher onwards. The biggest mistake was our railway. It’s not British now. It’s time to buy it back.

Steven Harland, Bradford

Trains make a lot more sense at least for short to medium trips. Please.

Petra Mo, Auroville

Privatisation of BR was one of the most inexcusable government decisions ever. We are left with high fares and bad service. Privatisation didn’t work for BR.

David McDermid, Newton Mearns

Although not frequent, I am a regular train user, mainly between York and London and occasionally other destinations.

Eileen Jaques, York

The current arrangements do not in any way constitute a ‘joined-up’ system which works properly.

Patrick O’Connor, Canterbury

Stop putting profit before the welfare of the passengers.

Jean Mann, Leeds

There might be a few things the private sector is better suited for than the public, but this is not it. Re-nationalise.

Albertina Benedetti-Hall, London

None of the main parties is discussing this wholly sensible option, yet poll after poll shows that this course of action is favoured by many people in Britain.

Kevin Michael, Govilon