Andrew Braithwaite, KeighleyLet’s have it back in our hands so that the profits can be spent improving the service.
Samantha Bugeja, EssexWe need the C2C to sort out the Purfleet line. Stop focusing on the main line.
Steve Anderson, BristolBillionaires don’t listen to anyone’s words but their own. Is there any point to this? Derail the City of London if you want social justice.
Jonathan Wardley, PlymouthBring me back the cheap days out.
Colin Flowerday, HoltThe Tories run the East coast main line as LNER. Bring back BRITISH RAIL.
Suki Jones, PortsmouthPublic Transport should be just that, run for the public by the public, but we have got to get it right. The Germans can do it, so why can’t we?
Arthur Crawford, EdinburghIf BR had been given the subsidies that are being given to private companies we could have had the best railway in the World.
S C, TreforestATW service is at breaking point. Overcrowding is terrifying. We cannot continue to sit quietly and do nothing. I am sick of fighting my way on to stand in the toilet.
Stephen Abel, LeedsSame as always – prices are too high, fluctuate too widely and the time-tabling is massively confusing.
Darren Burling, ChesterIt’s time for people to take the railways back.
Michelle Hornsey, LeedsPrivatisation doesn’t work. This fiasco is all the proof we need.
Gareth Williams, WenvoeWe need cheaper fares and profits ploughed back into the system. Shareholders should be supporting the system now not the taxpayer, unless we re-nationalise the system.
Barry Reeves, BlabyChristian Wolmar calculates that BR cost between £1m and £1.5m and today the railway cost £6m, including the Network Rail Debt. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Stan Newens, HarlowThe privatisation of our rail service was an expensive disgrace and should be reversed.
Callum Godwin, ManchesterIt’s obvious. I don’t need to explain.
John ConleyPlease bring back British Rail so I can return to work on the railways I love.
Roy Banks, FeatherstoneMy trains are currently late, noisy, rickety, too cold, too hot, invisible, cramped, unsafe, overcrowded, dirty, unmanned, smelly, expensive and old.
Clive Thorne, DaventryPrivatisation has not worked. Please do the sensible thing and re-nationalise British Railways.
David Atkins, WisbechBring back British Rail but as part of a socialist economy where all public services are democratically owned by the people.
Paul Holdsworth, SheffieldGood luck.
Daniel Jess, BerlinI come from London but moved away some time ago. I visit friends and family regularly up and down the country and am appalled by the cost and overcrowding. People not private profit.
Rona Hendry, PeterboroughSense should prevail, not greedy governments lining the pockets of their own. It just beggars belief that we had a zero balance when it was sold off.
Gill Oldaker, Shepton MalletYes, I agree. Trains should be for the people, not the profiteers. I abhor privatisation of national services.
Graham Ross, BoltonThis needs to happen to stop these companies bleeding money from the railways.
Elaine Dyson, HolywellThis is a public service. Give it back to the public.
Tim Shufflebotham, CanterburyOne rail network always worked better. Plus the industry could go 24hr to meet today’s demands of work/social gatherings, providing more jobs. Also trains every 20mins.
David Potter, StevenageThe franchised, privatised railway we have today is a disgrace. Why wasn’t British Rail subsidised to the tune that todays private railways are?
Derek Lowe, KnaresboroughEast Coast line is encouraging if it could be reproduced throughout the network.
Paul Higgins, HalesowenI fully support this idea.