Andre Gittens, WarringtonThe government only cares about money and profits – then people. When our railway was run by BR, the people were BR’s best friends, their number one priority.
Cuchulainn Gent, EdinburghEdinburgh’s railway has completely disappeared and what has followed is the creation of the UK’s most congested city. Bring back the rail.
William Harris, ManchesterRail transport should be counted as a social service.
Anthony Davis, NottinghamTake the infrastructure including stations back to British Railways, state owned, and recreate the pre WW2 grouping train operating companies, preferably also state owned.
Susan Turner, YorkThe present system needs to change.
Audrey Jones, LondonBring back the rail network as it was when my Dad worked on it. It was cleaner and more efficient and family affordable.
Anthony Kelly, DerbyRailways should be run for the public as a service and not for mega profits for the rich.
Pauline StephensThe franchise system can only be described as a bad compromise, which is too rigid to be able to meet the demands of customers.
John Somers, MirfieldPut the railways back into public ownership.
Michael Pruce, LondonStop these private companies ripping us all off with their price rises year in year out. Bring back BR.
Mike Glanville, GloucesterBring back a unified national rail network run for people not profit.
Tim Baker, West BridgfordEnough is enough. As a regular user of trains who experiences the ridiculous pricing, it’s time to get some standardising back to this public service.
Eleanor Wood, Hope ValleyThe fragmenting of our rail services since privatisation has caused chaos. It wasn’t perfect before but could have been improved more efficiently as a single system.
Stuart Tomlin, RugbyPrivatisation has never made anything cheaper or more efficient despite spurious claims to the contrary at its inception, witness the debacle in energy, water etc.
Maureen Raud, TeignmouthThe time has come to tell the Government that we’ve had enough of all this privatisation that doesn’t work for anyone except the fat cats.
Emma Adams, BradfordLet’s have fair fares again, instead of ticket price lotteries.
Alastair Carr, BostonWe need to bring back British Rail, as Network Rail outsource nearly all of their projects to scrupulous companies like Balfour Beatty and Alstom.
Paul Sheppard, LondonSouthwest Trains are crooks.
Oscar Speed, NottinghamRe-nationalise.
Ieuan Berry, NewportBring back British Rail.
Natasha Richards, SalfordIt just makes sense to do this.
Teresa Saunders, Newcastle-upon-TyneEast coast has been successful since in public hands. Keep it and transfer others.
Robert Beckford, HolsworthyMy nearest mainline station is 46 miles away. Re-open the Exeter to Plymouth route via Okehampton and get a free alternative route to the often disrupted route though Dawlish.
Joe Shaw, ManchesterWe need to take back what is collectively ours and run it for the collective good and profit as a nation, for us and for our visitors, not just for the 1% who profit from us.
Kathryn Thomas, Radcliffe-on-TrentThe ludicrously complicated fare structures have to go.
Frederic Bayer, Bexhill-on-SeaIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Dan Marston, NottinghamThis summer we travelled by rail right across Germany with two bicycles. We paid 26 euros each and we bought the tickets the same morning on the platform.
Mark Edwards, TywynArriva Trains Wales hands down the worst operators ever. Very expensive. Late and old trains which belong in a museum not the track.
Vandad Hatami, LondonThe British railway system is a joke these days. Train travel shouldn’t be a luxury for ordinary people, especially in this day and age that we have to combat the climate crisis.
Georgina Sharpe, SouthamptonI worked for British Rail. It was the best job ever. A French company took over and the depot closed. That was the worst day ever.