Fiona Potter, BillericayUnification is the only logical and efficient way to bring mass rapid passenger transit into the 21st century.
Christopher Teitge, StaffordBring back our British Rail. It is for the people of Britain and not for the profit of these greedy selfish fat cats.
Irina Ozerkina, LondonDeliver good and affordable service so that everyone could benefit.
Alan Middleton, DurhamA policy for the integration of all public transport should be urgently pursued.
Jamie Richardson, SouthseaThis really needs to happen.
Jean Gardner, SheffieldThe present system is crazy. We need an efficiently-run publicly-owned rail service. An integrated transport system would be ideal.
Chris Langridge, MarlowThe government still pays for maintenance, improvements and extensions to the rail network. The franchisers aren’t investing as they agreed to in the contract tenders,
Paul Nash, LondonBring back British Rail.
Leon Kennedy, Hong KongI lived in the UK until a month ago, and East Coast offers a much better service than all the other rail operators. I suspect it’s because it’s government-run, as BR was.
Andy Boyd, EdinburghTake a utility out of profiteers’ hands for the benefit of the people.
Annette Lillig, EdinburghRailways should be run for people, not for profit.
Richard Abram, DurhamMoney currently going to shareholders could be invested in the railway and in a properly coordinated public transport system.
Jez Hall, St NeotsSlam doors.
Antoinette Sym, LondonAll essentials, transport, education, health and energy, should be nationally-owned concerns.
Phil Wall, PontypriddThe poorest suffer; the richest grow richer.
Ann Williams, LondonCome back, British Rail. All is forgiven.
Nicholas Lyle, Woking / PortsmouthAffordable, local rail services for everyone!
Emma Anthony, OxfordMake the service a proper one for passengers and not just for shareholders. Also, please never call us customers.
Jonathan Ravenhill Lloyd, HastingsProfits are like rust to public services.
David Dakin, SheffieldWhy stop at the East Coast? Privatisation has only brought greed and poor service. Let’s go the whole hog and bring all the railways back to public ownership.
Gerard Seaman, BexleyheathPrivatisation has achieved absolutely nothing to the advantage of rail users, whilst the taxman (that means us) continue to subsidise profiteering service providers.
Christopher Brown, LeedsBring back British Rail and reverse Beeching!
Pat Williams, OxfordKeep the East Coast main line in public ownership. Run the services by putting passengers first rather than profit. That is what we need railways and trains for.
Sue Habeshaw, BristolIt just makes so much sense.
Nick Morgan, NewcastlePublic ownership of public transport is a no-brainer.
Frances Moran, LondonI am old enough to remember the days when British Rail ran the railways, and I can tell you it was run better in those days than it is now.
Emma Louis, BirminghamI come from a family of railway workers. I believe in rail travel. I use the train to commute to work but privatisation has not worked and doesn’t put travellers first.
Jane Atkinson, WakefieldPrivatising our national assets has to stop. They are bringing the country and all that was good about it to a standstill. Stop the policies of exploitation.
Brenda McCraith, KetteringLet’s roll back the last twenty years of mayhem and costs and bring back good old British Rail, a wonderful institution.