I’m a season pass holder pay ridiculous amount and as I don’t ride the main line service I get two carriages and never a seat.

Josh Collier, Trowbridge

Currently we have the worst privatisation. The loss of British Rail started the robbery from the people to the powerful.

Ian Enters, Sheffield

No competition, no investment, still being subsidised with taxpayers’ money going into private hands and outrageous fare rises.

Leon Salter

The railway should not just be for the rich. It has been priced out of the ordinary person’s reach. It should never have been privatised. The only winners are the shareholders.

Angela Carter, Walton-on-Thames

I always said that privatising rail was a really bad idea.

Peter Slegg

I used to work for BR at Reading, loved every minute of it then they privatised it and it lost its attraction.

Chris Uren, Bracknell

Let’s drag the rail network into the 21st century with investment in more then hanging plants.

Elaine Craig, Brighton

Trains are dangerously overcrowded due to carriage formations being woefully short at peak times. Everyone is back in the office as normal post Covid. Arriva must go!

Gemma Holmes, Thame

You should never privatise public services.

Trevor Smith

British Rail means getting there on time and at a fair price. Bring back what should never have gone.

Michael Rowland-Hill, Orpington

Obvious solution.

Matthew Nelmes, London

Can we also re-instate the word ‘passengers’ not ‘customers’? And get rid of some of those awful liveries too.

Huw Gwilliam, London

Lets at least keep Directly Operated Railways on the East Coast public not privatised.

John Page, Hertford

Southern out – they are ruining my life.

Arana Van Week, Bromley

Bring back the good old days.

Louie Withey, Southampton

The railways should be available to everyone, and serve every part of the country. They should not be another way for a handful of already rich people to get even richer.

Elizabeth Cleere, Rye

Railways are a social essential not a cash cow for foreign shareholders or vulture capitalists.

Gregory Collett, Lowestoft

I travel daily and I think the way that the rail companies operate is a disgrace – constant delays, cancellations and overall incompetence.

Sam Gutsell, Brighton

Get rid of the daylight robbers.

Marcus Turley, London

Let’s have a railway service that serves stakeholders not shareholders.

Mike Nevill, Worthing

Re-nationalise the railways. Stop paying shareholders.

Margaret Martlew, Sheffield

Insane that a major infrastructure service is not owned and run by the public. Successive UK (and now Scottish) governments continue to misjudge the public’s view.

Ian Buchanan, Stonehaven

It is so financially obvious (which is very important to this government) that further comment really is not needed. Wake up Labour Party. We all hacked off on this one.

John Hindhaugh, Gateshead

Unaffordable prices make it difficult to travel home as a university student.

Sophie Taylor, Macclesfield

They shouldn’t have been sold off in the first place.

Shea Hopper, Bournemouth

Keep essential public services in the public sector.

Lawrence O’Donnell, Littleboroough

Dismantling British Rail has led to chaos.

Bill Tasker, Liverpool

I started with BR just before all the fat cats got fatter with privatisation. The railway loses a fortune on all the contractors, middle men etc.

Stewart Brown, Glasgow

The nation’s industries – working with vision.

Robert Davidson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The highest prices and worst service in Western Europe. It’s time for a change now.

Warren Sherwin, Bolton