Michael Boty, WhitstableProfit should not be the driver. Passenger safety and satisfaction should be.
John Perkins, LondonTake it out of the hands of profiteers.
Jamie Richardson, SouthseaThis really needs to happen.
Steve Parkin, LeedsThe privatised rail company bosses are boasting that many more people are using the railways since privatisation. That’s because the road network is overcrowded.
Sandra Walsh, EssexWe need our railways back.
Sue Clark, LondonLearn from past mistakes, i.e. the previous privatisation didn’t work. Why repeat the exercise?
Graham Askew, CambridgePrivate profit never serves people.
Dom Maguire, LondonI’m fed up now. Just fed up. Surely a National network would function better than this shower.
Mark Cox, LondonI’m fed up of this untouchable extortion racket.
Robert Parker, SandhurstBring back British Rail and get rid of this rail madness we now suffer from – crap service and high fares.
Timothy Doughty, LondonEmail me please, I’m very keen on making noise.
N J T Lauro, WirralPrivatisation did nothing but put shareholders first and customers last. It always has done and always will do.
Philip Blanksby, DerbyThe railways should be publicly run, publicly accountable, with profits ploughed back into the industry, not lining shareholders’ pockets.
Derek Robertson, ArbroathWe need a nationalised railway. Privatisation leads to high fares and share holder pay-outs.
Robert Birtwell, ChichesterLots of private firms seem to have decided not to stand on their own feet, but sponge off taxpayers. We want our railway back.
Alan Pattison, ManchesterYes, I agree to the re-forming of good old British Rail.
Kathleen Napier, PrestonBring back trains where seats are available in ordinary class and not just for 1st Class passengers. 1st Class carriages are half empty whilst the others stand for miles.
Euan Rafferty, Leamington SpaI have been using rail in the UK for thirty years and it has gone downhill rapidly since privatisation.
Margaret Smith, HarrogateIt would be great to go back to simple tickets and employ out-of-work people to help around the place. They were once known as porters.
Linda Harte, BourneIf the right (qualified but not greedy) staff at the top were to be appointed, we the British public could have a well run, efficient, and affordable train service.
Michael McPate, MansfieldIt should never have been privatised in the first place. People before profit. Bring back steam. Think of the jobs created within the coal industry and reopen the pits.
Jim McGinley, HoylakeRail privatisation has produced an overpriced, dysfunctional mess. The only way forward is public ownership of the whole network as the East Coast line shows.
Drewe Shimon, AylesburyThere can be no alternative, if ever this nation’s transport system is to simplify itself and return to its former glories, but a return to nationalisation.
David Robert Grimes, OxfordAs a non-UK national living in the UK, I am shocked and disgusted at the outlandish prices and dreadful service UK customers are subjected to.
Jon Waring, YorkI don’t want to bring back the British Rail as was – but a modern British Rail which puts quality, safety and comfort first, not profit. The current system is crap.
Douglas Raith, EdinburghPublic transport should be a service, not a cash cow.
Steve Goddard, CrawleyRe-nationalisation could be designed to benefit passengers, workers and small/medium size companies as well through fair non-cartel competition. Fewer lazy fat cats.
Ria Hartley, BristolBring back British Rail.
Alan Brown, HullBR wasn’t perfect but it did usually have sufficient carriages to fulfil a generally decent service. The TOCs claim rail growth is due to their efforts. It’s not.
Morag Goldsmith, DarlingtonThe taxpayers and passengers pay out and get nothing back. East Coast line is a good example of how things should be.