Simon Mercer, MaidstoneBring back national rail and the consistency it would bring.
Stephen Graham, ManchesterNetwork Rail are hopeless.
Keith Jones, GatesheadIt should never have been privatised in the first place. Greed once again was put before common sense.
Babel Wallace, LondonIt’s time we had more say on public services.
Stuart Antrobus, BedfordLet’s have our public services back in public control.
John Dunn, ChesterfieldNationalise all privatised industries.
David Swan, LondonA country needs an infrastructure. Tories believe everything should make private profit, but charging higher and higher prices beyond customers’ wallets is no answer.
Carol Hills, StocktonPrivatisation is almost always a rip-off for consumers.
Rebecca Gould, CardiffI spend one fifth of my wages on the worst, totally unreliable, rudest service. They get it wrong all the time, but if you do, heaven forbid.
David Elliott, CleethorpesI’m sick of being ripped off. Bring back BR.
David Boyson, PortsmouthThe British system is a joke across Europe. That heavily subsidised private companies can be based in tax havens frankly offends me.
Mark Sach, IpswichBring back British Rail.
Mike Christy, StroudThe railways are a service. We should put service before profit.
John Maynard, HarrogateSince we are paying billions every year to subsidise fat cat pay and shareholder dividends we might as well own it.
Sam Bridges, DerbyI think that British Rail should come back. Let’s hope the train fares go down.
Cliff Blackwell, IlfordAs a serving freight train driver, I see every day the enormous amount of problems with the running of the system. We need one organisation to run it – British Rail.
Vic CurtisThey should never have been privatised, and Beeching was a wrong move.
Jamie Clarke, LeedsI work for Network Rail and see first hand how both passengers and staff could and should benefit from a unified railway network.
Bob Hawkes, RomfordI can’t believe people think these companies want to put money into the system. They all want to take it out and that’s Tory policy.
Barry Mead, TadcasterI use East Coast mainline regularly and it’s the best operator in Britain.
Benjamin Joseph, RosslareAs a ex-driver on the railways in this country, it’s a shambles how it’s run and how the companies make so much profit off government bailouts.
Steven O’Neill, ArmaghBring an end to private ownership of our network. It would mean lower fares and save for the nation.
Fiona Radic, PeterboroughEast Coast has been magnificent in public hands: popular, profitable and working for passengers not shareholders.
Gareth Brown, InverurieEast Coast worked fine – why not apply this model to the whole network?
Sharon Borthwick, LondonOur rail, our gas, our electricity, our commons, our streets in the hands of profiteers. I hope they shall soon perish.
James Clarke, LondonI want British Rail reinstated as I’m sick of paying fat cats and getting nothing in return. Give us back our network now.
Diane Baskerville, BirminghamPrivatisation just doesn’t work for infrastructure or utilities.
Martha Vale, HerefordWe deserve cheaper prices. Everything is going up except wages.
Tom Dussek, BrightonPrivatisation has been an expensive lie. I want services brought back under public ownership.
William A Edmundson, Atlanta, USATransportation is a public good that must not be a source for private rents. It’s silly to privatise the road system, equally so rail.