We need to make rail travel easier and less expensive. A revived British Rail should aim to achieve that.

Mark Clough, Bideford

Re-nationalise. It’s that simple.

David Shaw, Swindon

Our services belong in public hands. No more private railways or bus services.

Ian Beasley, Stoke-on-Trent

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

Carl Loben, Brighton

They should never have privatised this in the first place. Let’s make it right

Ann Spicer, Cambridge

It’s ludicrous that Britain doesn’t have a fully-integrated rail system and that so-called public transport is, in fact, private.

Rebecca Brown, Banstead

It should simply be re-nationalised now.

Patricia Gray, Barnsley

Trains will never be a viable option until they are affordable.

Talia Hunt, Salisbury

How about being able to travel across the country for less than it costs to fly to another country entirely?

Josh Cluderay, London

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it (according to your political views). Leave alone and away from the clutches of your financial cronies. It’s ours not yours.

Peter Whiteman, Chelmsford

British Rail was a far better, better value and safer service than the current regime.

Nigel Wootton, Hitchin

Bring Back British Rail now.

Pat Ferguson, Nottingham

The most expensive and poorly run service in Europe and we’re trying to get people off the roads. It’s never going to happen with such a miserable rail experience that we have.

Karen Reeve, Bedford

Not only the rail network but the whole of the transport network should be brought back into public hands.

Richard Longhurst, London

Stop taking away things that have made Britain great.

David Hills, Worthing

I 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.

Bob Hawkes, Romford

Compared to other countries our current situation is ludicrous. The railway should be for the benefit of the people not for the benefit of the corporations.

Sarah Macdonald, Melbourne

Bring back British Rail, and the sectorised branding.

Jeremy Galbraith, Ashford

Turn today’s disjointed, overcrowded railway system back into the best.

Sheilagh Merrett, Camberley

Let’s have a government with common sense. Is that too much to ask for? Apparently so.

Carol Wilson, Saffron Walden

We support you 100%. In Bulgaria government wants to sell our railways too and systematically to ruin our Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ).

Relsov Obshtestven, Sofia, Bulgaria

Bring back British Rail. I can remember when the trains were run for the convenience of the passengers not the money grabbing companies running the railways now.

Joy Cuff, Teddington

Although it is probably bottom of this government’s agenda, for thousands of people the goal of having a railway system run for people as a service is fundamental.

Jonathan Alder, Wenhaston

Our rail network should be seamless and better regulated for the benefit of the customers, not shareholders.

Rosemary Morgan, Birmingham

After using the train system in Sweden I am horrified by the trains in the UK.

Zoe Kelly, Isle of Wight

I was involved at the time privatisation started in the energy industry and have watched in amazement the mess Thatcher and her mates made of it. Let’s get it all back.

Andy Togneri, Derby

Instead of wasting money on high speed rail, spend it on putting back all the branch lines to bring life back into the country, also creating lots more jobs.

Terry Thomson, Swansea

Profiteering from our infrastructure might be good for the profiteers but is not good for consumers or that old-fashioned notion of the ‘national interest’.

Susan O’Brien, Lancaster

All profits should go back into the railway not into private investors’ pockets. Railways should be subsidised and for the people not the wealthy.

Mark Lauri, Reading