Privatisation has failed customers wherever it has been allowed to take place, and it seems employees too. Allow us a National Rail network to be proud of.

Clare Owen, Nottingham

It would be great to also see improvements to rolling stock used on regional services like here on the Carlisle to Newcastle line.

Mike Domingue, Hexham

Do it as soon as possible.

Jiri Malina, London

Let the people make the decisions!

Daniel Holt, Climping

I hope you are successful with your petition.

David Carr, Tadley

We taxpayers are paying more in subsidy to the private companies that run the railways now than we ever did when it was state-owned. Re-nationalise now.

Jerry Cooper, London

Something has to be done about this blatant rip-off.

Pete Sherwood, Wallington

Nationalise public transport.

Alex Harvey, Sheringham

End the grabbing shareholder scams, and the ludicrous way bus companies try to run the railway.

James Hardwick, Long Eaton

I want value for money: £4,000 a year and no seat.

Lisa Morley, Margate

Bring back British Rail, when open return tickets were the norm.

Mohammed Zulkernain, Slough

This is not working.

Barrie Evans, London

Half empty first class seats, standing only on certain routes with above inflation ticket prices. Compare East Coast financial figures with franchises. No contest.

Danny Kearney, London

Price gouging on car parking as result of massive monopolistic position in the area around car parks.

Peter Johnson, London

I support the return of BR.

Ronald Copeland, Brighouse

Give us back our railways.

Robert Robinson, London

Bring back British Rail for the benefit of everyone, not just the shareholders.

John Coates, Birmingham

Bring it back now.

Anne Keighley, Manchester

Bring back British Rail.

Ashley Collier, Mansfield

As soon as possible.

Tom Lovelock, London

We pay far more in subsidies than we would if we just owned the railways. The service is disconnected and prohibitively expensive.

Aj Dehany, London

The rail system should be for the benefit of travellers, not for private profit.

Nicholas Darsley, London

The rolling stock leasing companies swallow up a hundred thousand pounds a year for each and every train – that money goes straight down the drain.

Thomas John Wheeler, Dyfed

Stop privatising everything. There is more to life than trying to make profits as the only priority. What about providing decent public services?.

Albert E C Hemmings, Salisbury

Re-nationalise with no compensation.

Grace Ellen, Whitstable

I am a former porter on BR in 1949-50. I would like the railways back in public ownership.

Dennis Warwick, Burley-in-Wharfedale

The train is my favourite form of transport but now I’m retired train travel is a luxury that is becoming one I cannot afford.

Linda Ringrose, Nottingham

UK trains are a shambles compared to the rest of Europe.

Akit, London

Stop charging inflated prices for rail journeys and profiting from rail travellers.

Yvette De Sylva, Leicester

Naked profiteering for private owners at the expense of rail travellers is wrong.

Rikki Ferguson, London