John Self, WissettLabour’s John Prescott spoke of the idea before they were elected the first time. What happened? Labour caved in to city pressure is my guess. Let’s do it now.
Charlotte Rayment, BrightonI am a train driver for London Underground and I am always made late picking up my train and this affects the Victoria line service. It goes on my record too. I will go part time.
Ruth Rach, LewesStop these greedy, outrageous and callous private monopolies
Jean Mertzanakis, LeedsIf BR reduces prices and doesn’t make me sit on my luggage from Leeds to London I might use trains again rather than National Express buses.
Sue Sparks, LondonRail should be under unified public ownership, only more accountable than it was before to passengers and employees.
Kether Eaglestone, LondonNationalise the railways now.
Terry Hudson, DarlingtonEast Coast service proves that the railways can make money under public ownership. All public services and utility companies ought to be re-nationalised.
Anthony Collins, LondonWe are paying for major infrastructure upgrades through the public purse anyway. Privatisation just wrings the passengers for profit.
Andrew Pettigrew, SheffieldIt’s not just the railways that need to be brought back into public ownership, but that’ll do for a start.
Gillian Malouf, StockportCross Country now use the Trainline to service their website and have suddenly started charging £1 to collect tickets from the self service station machines.
John Atkin, HarlechArriva trains are heavily subsidised and too expensve to use. Nationalise now.
Evan Jenkins, PooleThe railway needs its efficiency and respect it once had. It will also create more jobs for the people who want work in the rail industry.
Ria JonesI worked for the railways for fifteen years and I left in 1993 as privatisation was coming in. I now cannot afford to travel by train.
M Newman, EdinburghRight now we the British public are wasting millions of pounds each year on a joke of a so-called not-for-profit rail network so that companies can profit from the people.
John Meredith, DerbyObeying a European directive was one reason given for separating trains from track. If all the train operating companies were nationalised the directive could still be fulfilled.
Raymond Bishop, GodalmingFat cat Tories selling to their fat cat friends at a knock-down price at taxpayers’ expense. I can’t wait for next May to get shot of this government.
Claudia Bultman, GravesendWe are fed up with all these fat cats which are lining their pockets with lots of money. Let the people run the railways and you will see the improvements they bring.
Cynthia Roushorn, Wigginton. YorkLet us go back to the times when booking a train ticket was not a lottery and you knew in advance exactly how much you would be paying and there was good service.
Ian Macpherson, EgremontRun the railways for people – not for private profit.
Graham Lester George, NottinghamInfrastructure services should be for the national good, not shareholders’.
John Russell, NorwichPrivatising the railways was like everything else the Conservatives privatised. A complete disaster.
Stuart Gray, TrowbridgePrivatisation has not worked.
Faisal Hamza, YorkThe whole point of privatisation is competition. There cannot be competition in a sector which cannot duplicate its infrastructure. It causes dreadful service and prices.
Tim Rauscher, WienI am from Austria and Britain needs British Rail.
Michael Verbauwhede, Brussels, BelgiumFull support.
Jamie Sims, DerbyRe-nationalise the rail system.
Linda Urquhart, LoughboroughHow are these money-grabbing and subsidised services better than the old British Rail?
Helen Dodd, EssexI would like to see our trains brought back into public ownership. Most of our franchisees are state operated – by other countries!
Rod Galilee, WarkworthEast Coast has out-performed all other rail service providers in recent years. A true indication that it should be government run for us and not for private owners.