Since privatisation there have been many wasted opportunities to get improvements done to the rail network.

Frank Nicholas Adam

Why should our transport systems be owned by foreign states and not our own?

Stephen Miller, Birmingham

The South East Region needs longer trains all the time, not just a few during peak hours.

Gerard Neill, London

Words fail me.

Cassy Firth, Leeds

A re-unified national rail network could lead to greater efficiency and a less complex pricing system.

Joan Vickers, Darlington

One of the worst government decisions ever made.

Gordon Daunt-Jones, Rochester

An infrastructure that serves the whole country should never be in the hands of private companies. East Coast Rail has proved this.

Alan Taylor, Coalville

The Major government harped on about offering choice. So they granted private companies rail franchises, which are effectively monopolies.

Gregor McKechnie, Gothenburg, Sweden

I stand with Labour against rip-off Northern Rail.

William Smith, Manchester

East Coast Rail was working perfectly until it was re-privatised. Now, despite the usual Virgin hype, the lounges have been down-graded and there are reliability problems.

Ian Hamilton, Dunbar

Rail should never have been privatised in the first place.

David Ransom, Brighton

Train tickets are too expensive and too complicated to understand.

Leigh Hatts, London

This is a public service and shouldn’t be run for private profit. Why should there be profits when most services are overcrowded, understaffed, out-of -date and running late.

Suzi Boardman, Bolton

Do it for the good of the people, not for private profit.

Bobby Webb, Manchester

There is overwhelming support to restore our railways to public ownership and politicians must listen.

Doris Brunt, Biggleswade

Bring back publicly-owned railway, to show these companies how to run it.

Jason Lodge, Hove

The fare rises are disgusting.

Harry Mander, Westcliff-on-Sea

Why pay dividends to shareholders when the money would be better spent on renewing the rails and trains?

Ian Sadler, Leeds

It can’t happen soon enough.

John Rolfe, London

It makes no sense to fragment the railways. It’s been tried by John Major and the experiment failed miserably.

Robert Thomas, Northolt

Run the railways for the sake of the railways, not the cash you can milk (looking at you, First Great Western.)

Timothy Swann, Worcester

We need the railways to be brought back into the public ownership now.

Mick Brady, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Profiteering, money before service, disgraceful lies and deceit. It’s time for a change. Escape Tory and Labour lies.

Terry McKeown, Leeds

Can’t be worse than the current situation.

John Delaney, Llandudno

Re-nationalise and invest in a national rail service.

Nicola Shepherd, Alton

Does this Government sell off their own family silver or just the country’s. They are catching up with Gordon Brown.

Andrew Clubb, Aberdeen

I fully support the desire to bring back an international network serving Scotland and Wales and England, especially in Scotland.

David Muir, Glastonbury

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

Colin Flowerday

Trains have always been my preferred means of travel but since privatisation have become too expensive.

Nicola Graham, Brighton

Privatisation has been a disaster for the railways. We subsidise it more now than when it was publicly owned.

Peter Gillon, Sowerby Bridge