Privatisation is just an out-and-out rip-off.

Michael Griffiths, Manchester

Let’s have a sensible rail network with a sensible fares policy.

Nick Allen, Hassocks

Nationalisation of the railways has always been an essential part of society. I am pessimistic in the extreme in these days of everything being privatised.

Simon Mayhall, Leeds

Change is due. We have a rail system whose profits should not go to big business.

Terry Collins, Snaith

Railways not for private profit.

Stephen Cullen, Prescot

We need to save our billions from going to European railway companies and invest in our railways for a better service.

Gurmeet Singh, Leeds

It’s time to take back control of our railways.

Mark Pedlar, Wakefield

Give back to Britain our heritage.

Dawn Appadoo, Rochester

The idea of competition when there are fixed routes makes little sense. The public subsidy to all the lawyers and spivs involved is wasteful.

Paul Marchant, Leeds

East Coast has failed in private hands, worked profitably for the state, yet has been returned to the private sector. Bonkers.

Scott Brady, Burntisland

Any profits from the rail system should go into the public purse, not the bank accounts of fat cat parasites. Get the railways re-nationalised.

Eric Sykes, Sheffield

Safety/customer service and limitless profit simply don’t mix.

Glen Arnold, Rugeley

Plus energy and water.

Ade Marks, Portreath

Privatisation is unstable and has cost the tax payer millions more than they should be paying and has created a poorer service. It is time to reverse the errors.

Simon Best, Leeds

The privatisation of our railways by the Thatcherite Tories has been a theft of massive proportions that must be reversed. It was totally immoral.

Frank Lawson, Halifax

Bring back British Rail – back into this country’s hands, not those of foreign companies.

Ronald Fay, Gateshead

In 1948 the Government of the day had to nationalise the railways to keep them operating. That time has returned.

Roger Jacob, Wrexham

Although it was by no means perfect as BR, it was a whole lot better than now. Employ real railway people at the top too, not business Muppets who don’t understand.

Kaeren Daunt-Jones, Rochester

Let’s make public transport publicly owned and not for private profit.

David Lewis, York

Now.

Robert Lovelady, Westgate-on-Sea

The price we are paying now should be going into the trains not into people’s pockets.

Helen Jones, Manchester

Stop the theft.

Annie Thompson, Portsmouth

Yes please. I am sick of all these different companies and the fact that the government has to subsidise them in any case.

Christine Entwisle, London

Profits no. Investment yes.

Nicholas Blomstrand, London

Too expensive to use.

Carole Dennis, Newton Abbot

Let’s put the British back into our railways.

Raymond Byers, Sheffield

Privatisation has never worked with bus and rail. Labour has failed to undo this and union rights.

Mervyn Davies, Colchester

We need to put pressure on the government to Bring back British Rail into public ownership – well overdue.

Eddy Hughes, Manchester

For too long a rich minority has controlled key parts of our society. First we will get the trains back then all our other basic utilities.

Antony Woolley

We need a nationalised, unified train system. Prices and service quality has become far too sporadic under privatisation.

Richard Denham, Oxford