Nigel Filer, WatfordCost of 4 weekly oyster cards zone 1-9 is £320+. My rent with all bills included is £470. Travel costs are a disgrace.
David Melville Wingrove, EdinburghIn the shameless legacy of the Blair and Thatcher years, the Great Rail Rip-Off ranks among the worst. Re-nationalise now.
Peter Dickinson, Brierley HillThe current franchise agreements mean that profits can be sucked away from the railways by private companies, yet the government then has to stump up money for investment.
Jonathan Wise, DursleyCompare with any other railway in Europe, all state run and better.
Oliver Jarrett, LondonI’m fed up with prices, service and awful names and symbols.
Jeff Hemmen, LondonAs a foreigner who now lives in the UK, I still cannot believe how expensive (and otherwise capitalist) trains in the UK are, and that the British people let this happen.
Derek Chapman, FromeThe prices are far too high, with private companies only interested in profit for the shareholders.
Rory Tulip, Newcastle-upon-TyneDo our children deserve to live in a country without an affordable, convenient and green infrastructure?
Carole Williamson, DurhamEssentials like travel and public services and utilities should be run by us, for us.
Kathleen Napier, PrestonBring back trains where seats are available in ordinary class and not just for 1st Class passengers. 1st Class carriages are half empty whilst the others stand for miles.
Jozef Skraba, BristolRe-nationalising UK railways will benefit us all.
Mary Fraser, KilmarnockWe should own the railways before they go overseas.
John Wilson, CambridgeshireNow there are so many different types of tickets in different areas, it’s impossible to be sure if you are getting a reasonable deal.
Suzi Hanney, FarehamCommon sense.
Steve Rogers, TotnesThe privatised system is expensive and pointless.
Colin Rolfe, ChelmsfordThis needs to be back in the public sector. Why should tax payers keep bailing out these companies and then pay through the nose to line their pockets?
Nathaniel Davies, TelfordShareholders should not factor into a vital nation-wide transport link. It makes for over complication and over pricing, with very little profit going to the system. BBBR.
Paul Manning, WinchesterLet’s stop handing over vast amounts of public funds to private corporates.
Martin Reaper, DurhamBritish Railways is the only cost effective practical solution for public rail transport in Great Britain.
John Young, NottinghamThe privatisation project of the last thirty years has been an ideologically driven disaster, and the railways fiasco of the 1990s was amongst the most egregious.
Tessa Thomas, LondonI’ve always tried to use alternatives to car travel but rising train fares have made it increasingly difficult. The result is more car use, congestion and pollution.
Rex Birchenough, PeterboroughEast Coast has been run very successfully for the last few years under national control. Why change it?
Jools Johnston-Elliott, FavershamBring back British Rail.
Pippa Richardson, SwanseaPrivatised railway shareholders and executives profit from passengers and taxpayers. This profit should be used to keep fares down and improve the network.
Ron Greenham, LutonBoth the trains and the rail system should be under one management and it is too big for one company to control.
David Kaye, CambridgeYes – and every time a new company takes over, that fat cats leave with their fat options.
Paul Greenwood, DurhamBring BR back. It should be in the nation’s hands, not fat cats’.
Sara Callaghan, FalkirkWhen the public owned East Coast the service was amazing but since privatisation I can no longer afford to use rail to visit my parents in the North East.
Darran Strutt, DoncasterYou (the government) privatise the railway then expect us to pay for a new line costing billions, yet you take the profit from the railways and give us nothing back.
Lewis Stowe, CoventryBring it back in the name of, and in service to, the people of the United Kingdom.