Rail privatisation is a rip-off for the commuter and the taxpayer and has led to an inconsistent and expensive service.

Steve Beckett, London

Yes we need cheap trains.

Rob Willis, Shrewsbury

Running essential services for profit is immoral.

Marijn Van der Meulen, Noordwijk

Bring it back.

Harrold Nosk

I’m sick of paying ridiculously high fares and having to tolerate consistently poor service.

Justin Cole, Warwick

Privatisation of strategic national assets is just a funnel from the pockets of users and taxpayers to those of shareholders.

Geoff Roberts, Rickmansworth

Let’s get some sanity back into our railway system.

Roger Freeston, Biggleswade

Railways should be for the masses, not just for the super rich.

David Banks, Preston

What’s the point of a train service no one outside London can afford?

Simon Herbert, Leicester

Reverse everything done by Thatcher.

Ben Gibbons, Bristol

Unified service, run for the customers rather than profiteering boardmen, able to invest in the tracks and trains.

Jo Bain, London

And get rid of that silly fare-structure which penalises people who do not know in advance that they wish to travel.

David Crossley, Welwyn

Public services should be owned by the public.

Julie Young, Chesterfield

I’m sick of the ticketing system, sick of the overcrowding, most of all sick of the cavalier attitude to any complaint, or no response at all.

Irene Double, Keighley

Railways are a service and not for private profit.

Richard Hart, Bromley

British Rail publicly owned would be operating in the interests of the stakeholders.

Hilary Parnell, Rickmansworth

Privatisation has been a complete waste of time, has not benefited anyone who uses it. It’s turned out worse value for consumers as prices hike and services get worse.

Nicolas Richardson, Cardiff

Soon.

Stew Baddiley, Kempston

Vertical integration has to make sense. But please keep out the politicians and civil servants from meddling in the rail industry.

Andrew Long, Flitwick

The experience with Southern Rail leaves us with no other choice..

Carl Loben, Brighton

I’m definitely in favour of re-nationalising the railway system (what we have left of it in Wales.)

M J Bailey, Carmarthen

First of all I’m really sick and tired of this privatisation as it is all about making profit, cramming in as many seats as possible and foreign-made trains.

Jason Leyton, London

The Railway is for the people not the shareholders. It’s time to re-nationalise.

Douglas Oxer, Bolton

We are great when we create

Susan Anderson, Doncaster

Let’s go back to a joined-up system.

Charles Brown, Knaresborough

Many of the lines removed by Beeching would now be profitable given subsequent economic development.

Talat Chaudhri, Aberystwyth

We should own the railways before they go overseas.

Mary Fraser, Kilmarnock

Every government should be in control of basic services: healthcare, energy and transport. Only one remains public, barely. Let’s bring all back to being public.

Martina Arata, London

Train tickets are too expensive and too complicated to understand.

Leigh Hatts, London

I’m fed up with cancelled trains.

Anita O’Mahoney-Hamilton, Henlow