Taking the train between Scotland and London has just become unaffordable for me.

Martyn Bissett, Stirling

We should re-nationalise all our sold-off utilities. No-one asked us for permission.

Joyce Wood, Northampton

Put an end to all this privatisation. It’s the ordinary British person’s tax that built our once great railways – hence British Rail. Since privatisation just a mess.

Michael Newton, Doncaster

British Rail was good. They should never have privatised the railways because the fares cost so much.

Harrison Connor, Basingstoke

Let’s stop this private greed and get back on the right tracks. Public transport.

Phillip Corbett, Harwich

I’m sick of non-running or late running trains. Track work, track work is a mantra of C2C.

Martin Yeomans, Thurrock

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.

Paul Harrop, Hull

We need cheaper public transport.

Vivek Patel, Leicester

Imperative for the future.

Christopher Gauntlett, London

We need to re-nationalise all the transport and utilities.

William Ryan, Manchester

Not only do I want to bring back British Rail, I want everything to be brought back.

Cyndy Kelly, Wetherby

Selling essential public infrastructure was (and still is) absolute stupidity.

Adrian Barron, Maidenhead

I use East Midlands trains at least twice a week and as the prices rise the service gets poorer.

Kathleen Price, Nottingham

Privatised rail companies are a joke. Prices have consistently risen above inflation and the service has not improved. It costs more for a return ticket for petrol.

Adrian Bryan, Norwich

Put the railways back into public ownership. It will save money and save tax-payers’ money.

Joan Sanger, Beckingham

Good petition. British Rail – the good old days.

Joe Ellis, Herne Bay

I lost my job and pension in 1993 as the Tories decimated BR in preparation for privatisation. My life can’t be fixed but the railways can.

Peter Lane, St Neots

We should remove private profit from all essential services.

Belinda Lowis, Chester-le-Street

All MPs should pay their own fares and not claim them on expenses. We just might see a different reaction from them then.

Glynis Fisher, Birmingham

Rail, like water and electricity, is a public utility and should be in the public domain.

Vicky Bear, Bodmin

All public transport in the UK should be nationalised. All that means is that it belongs to us not to other nations and nationalities.

Linda Halsey, Knaresborough

In recent years we have seen spiralling costs, deteriorating services and vast amounts of public money used to subsidise the rail companies. This experiment has failed.

Federico Moscogiuri, Hertford

All essentials, transport, education, health and energy, should be nationally-owned concerns.

Antoinette Sym, London

I’ve reached the end of the rail with Southeastern. We need a return to a service run for passengers not for profit.

Louise Butcher, Kent

The only way to travel that makes sense. By the people for the people. The competition fallacy has derailed with the success of East Coast thus far.

Justin Grasty, York

The transport infrastructure should be owned by all of us so we can develop a coherent transport policy for the future.

Pauline Allies, Maidenhead

This is needed. Our railways are just a joke now.

Benjamin Ross, Welwyn Garden City

Privatisation was a botched ideological part of roll-back the state, John Major’s attempt to go where Maggie did not. Other countries saw that it was folly and did not.

David Drew, Rickmansworth

It is definitely time that railways are taken out of the private sector and run for the public not for enrichment of the few.

Denise Bret, London

ScotRail and their subsequent operators are a joke. They use every opportunity to blame Network Rail for failures.

Marshall Dean, Keith