Bring it back in house.

William Shearer, Folkestone

Year on year out we get fleeced. Enough is enough.

Daniel York, London

A country’s transport infrastructure should never be in private hands and run for the profit of share-holders.

Mark Green, Birmingham

It worked well before and you could travel by different routes without hassle. An efficiently-run BR would knock what we have now into a cocked hat.

Ian Kendall, Ledbury

Bring back British Rail. What a nonsense that money which should be ploughed back into a better rail service is used to line the pockets of shareholders.

Richard Mandridge, Petersfield

A re-unified national railway network is fair, sensible and forward-looking.

John Littlefair, Brough

Do it yesterday.

Simeon Green, Ilkeston

Transport should always be in public hands.

John McGregor, Blyth

Please keep the tracks in public hands. It isn’t perfect but it’s so much better than the private alternative.

Alan Cox, Edinburgh

Rail prices are going sky-high and the service isn’t improving one bit. Privatisation hasn’t worked. Profit shouldn’t be the main motivator in providing a public service.

Tony Gale, Derby

Completely overpriced for the service and comfort of the trains. Always my last resort.

Helen Amphlett, Tewkesbury

Certain essential utilities are best operated by Government who are responsible to the electorate, not shareholders. East Coast has proved it.

Hilda Sacranie, Hartlepool

If there’s profit to be made, then the profit should belong to the people and be further invested into improving the facilities for the better of us all.

James Dodd, Sheffield

Keep up the good work.

Ian Carnew, Bristol

Privatisation – just a massive failure fuelled by greed.

Robin Ridley, Sheffield

Buying train tickets is far too complicated and confusing.

Carol Munro, Bournemouth

Let’s get cars off the road with affordable rail travel for all – an infrastructure investment.

Mark Vickers, Chippenham

The new timetables are terrible and on top of this there are frequent cancellations and short trains resulting in overcrowding.

Liam Murphy, London

Privatisation has made our railway one of the most expensive in Europe per passenger mile. It’s been a disaster.

Anthony Stanton, Cambridge

About time, the profiteering rather than service idea makes me sick as a previous employee, now retired.

Michael Moloney, Banff

Railways now, power and water next.

Mike Hughes, London

It is time to stop this nonsense of private companies making profits from public subsidy and ripping off the travelling public.

Paul Andrews, London

To re-nationalise seems common sense, so let’s do it.

Barrie Evans, Barry Island

People not profit.

Neil Sanderson, Oswestry

I work on the railways and it needs to go back to BR to save the railways from meltdown.

Roy Lawrenson, Accrington

I’ve travelled all over Europe by train and the UK’s railways are the most over-priced and contemptuous of the passenger.

Aviva Jacobs, London

Stop these greedy, outrageous and callous private monopolies

Ruth Rach, Lewes

There was absolutely no logic to privatising and fragmenting the railways other than to line the pockets of a privileged few.

Barry Marshall, Hebburn

Because of the way the trains currently work, it is now cheaper to get a return plane ticket to Spain than it is to get a return train ticket to London. This is daft.

Christopher Parker

Another theft which needs to be sorted.

Nicola Godfrey, Inverness