Simon Canfer, SwindonI want a rail service that I can afford to use please.
Graeme Chegwidden, Hemel HempsteadSome things are better not done for personal enrichment at the expense of others.
Richard Longhurst, SurbitonWhen British Rail had the railways, things were so much better.
Luke Bristow, BasildonC2C commuter, crowded expensive rubbish.
Jim Seconde, LondonRailways provide a service. Privatised railways do not provide a service. If profit margin percentages are more important, it ceases to be an effective service.
Robert Nix, LeominsterThe return of British Rail would give the nation fairness and a national transport network.
Peter Fairhurst, GatesheadNationalisation means simplification, for all concerned.
Peter Earl, LewesPrivatisation has been a failure, destroying the nation’s public transport and placing considerable additional costs on all users.
Angela Murphy, LeicesterA not-for-profit transport system. Going to work is not a luxury nor meant to line shareholders’ pockets.
Kenneth Robson, RushdenThe railways were taken into public ownership because the private sector was in an absolute mess and so the railways are again in an absolute mess.
Mike Kane, MarchRailways for public service not private profit.
Van Tran, NottinghamBusinesses are in it for their shareholders, not for the benefit of the people who use the trains.
Ian Mortimer, NorthamptonJust do it.
Travis Speight, DoncasterI think this is such a good cause. I get the train almost every day to Leeds to get to college and every day I pay 12 pounds for a return ticket. These prices aren’ t OK.
Miranda Phillips, St AlbansOver-priced and complicated system of railways. We need a system which is about travelling and not all about how many pieces a system can be broken into as investments.
Paul Malone, StorringtonRe-nationalise and reopen more stations.
Nigel Smith, YorkAll public utilities should be nationalised and most ordinary citizens would agree.
W. Neville Martin, LeedsThere are in my opinion certain facilities and services that should remain nationalised, including railways, health and power supply, to name but a few.
Jacqueline Rattray, LondonPrivatisation has been shown to not work. Taxpayers are paying three times what they would if the railways were nationalised. Performance is down and fares are up.
Graham Hargreaves, CaernarfonWe want our railway back.
John Hunt, Sutton-in-AshfieldEast Coast. Big mistake by our government but can’t go back to how it was when privatised, Somewhere in the middle?
Bryan J Willis, GatesheadStop the rail rip-off.
Hugh Davies, AberdareThey should never have been sold off.
Thomas McCausland, ManchesterNo more profit-sharing giants.
Jean Scott, BristolSixty years ago I travelled by train in my city. We had no cars. Bristol was more beautiful pleasant city – no clogging traffic. Give us back rail networks and fair fares.
Simon Wolfers, LlanbedrOur state should run our rail, not foreign states.
John Lucas, Middleton-On-SeaSouthern’s ongoing failure to provide a reliable service is deplorable. It’s clear the government don’t care about the travelling public and are happy to fund our misery.
Margaret Whitehead, NorthallertonGovernment is subsidising railways more now than with BR and that money keeps shareholders happy. Stupid.
Anne Gale, BristolPrivatisation – the worst thing in the world for what should be a national organisation.
John Tait, HarrowStop the Business Critical Rules programme.