Hayley Relph, LondonTravel costs consume about 40% of my wages.
Jack Sellen, LondonI’m fed up with privatisation. It is a con.
Ian Sharman, NorwichStop crippling your own workforce by making it more difficult and expensive to get to work.
Ted Goodhew, MaidenheadThe so-called profit motive has been discredited by the sharks who run these companies.
Louise Scullion, DundeeA non-privatised, national rail network is the backbone of any mature developed country.
Kyle M, AberdeenThe East Coast mainline focused on the passengers, and returning both profit and other benefits to society. It’s a prime example of how nationalised railways do work.
Michael Moseley, CheltenhamAs a daily Gloucestershire to London commuter I am frustrated by the fragmentation of the current system and angry that Germany can make DB work even here.
Michael Duff, Milton KeynesI’d like to know how many politicians are connected to and earning money from companies involved in privatisation.
Mark Slater, CaterhamThe most efficient franchise is publicly run. Government funding of the railways has soared since privatisation. It has been an expensive failure.
David Lienard, Newcastle-upon-TynePrivatisation is a capitalist threat to democracy.
Gerard Brady, MotherwellAs a frequent rail traveller throughout the UK, I’m in favour of re-nationalising British Rail. Fares are too expensive and the fare structure too complicated.
Dawn Farrier, NottinghamEverything that was ever nationalised before Thatcher sold it should be re-nationalised.
Stephen Helm, PontelandEast Coast Rail have shown that publicly-owned is better than privately-owned, for customers and taxpayers.
David Banks, PrestonRailways should be for the masses, not just for the super rich.
Joseph Kemp, KeighleyDown with our corporate overlords.
Martin Bedford, BournemouthThe rail privatisation has got to be one of the most outrageous, harmful and impractical of all privatisations.
Ian Maunder, SwanseaEnd the current fiasco and give us back British Rail.
Robert Pierce, DolgellauTravel by rail is out of the question for me. It’s far too expensive.
James Bavin , OswestryTake our railways back into public ownership.
Amanda Mulholland, BirminghamIt should never have been sold off. Fat cats got fatter.
Jill Caretto, HarlowTransport should not be run to make a profit for shareholders. Any profit should be used to maintain and upgrade.
Glenn Richards, Wotton-under-EdgeThe HST (125) had a perfect safety record under BR. Within a few years of privatisation, profit before safety, there were two crashes in London with massive fatalities.
William Edmonds, HuddersfieldPrivatisation was a disaster. All it brought was private profit with the public paying more. Electricity should be re-nationalised too.
Robert Hill, LondonBring back BR and introduce a clear standardised fare structure.
James Siddle, WakefieldTransport, health and utilities should never be in the hands of the private sector.
Jane Evans, Newcastle-upon-TyneEast Coast have run the London-Newcastle-Edinburgh-Aberdeen line very effectively since it was handed back after the second of two failures by private companies.
Christopher Bell, HullIt is about time profiteering finished and the railway was put back to being a public service. Privatisation has shown it can work, now let’s have some fair play for us.
Lisa Pickering, PrestonWe need a decent rail system please.
Susan Dawson, RosudgeonNeither trains, railways nor buses should ever have been privatised. High prices for poor transport services. Nationalised would be better maintenance/service/price.