British Rail should never have been privatised in the first place. Bring back British Rail.

Leanne Ralston, Seaford

If 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.

Jean Mertzanakis, Leeds

Cheaper train tickets.

Graeme Dowie, Beith

Public transport is a public service.

Andy Brown, Leighton Buzzard

British Rail was safer. The rail system we have now is dangerous.

David Butcher, Carlisle

I have to use Southern Rail to commute and I’m sick of them earning a profit while offering their customers an atrocious service.

Sarah Taylor, London

Thirteen years of increased prices and increased delays with decreased services. Surely this cannot be justified.

Justin Glover, Cardiff

Bring it back.

Tim Singleton, Ashton-under-Lyne

Give us what we want.

Ellen Pearce, Plymouth

Even with a 16-25 railcard I can barely afford to travel by train to work. There’s barely any point in my travelling to work with the amount I spend on train fares.

Vincent Barker, Northampton

Let’s have a national railway system that works as an inexpensive and real alternative to car and air travel. It makes sense on all sorts of levels.

Jane Angel, Edinburgh

Please bring back British Rail and restore sensible prices and reliable services.

Jackie Shaw, Caterham

I hate the idea ‘Public Bad, Private Good’ still persists. Directly Operated Rail are paying money back into the system not taking it out like the private companies.

Chris Warren, Bath

Get the Tories out and nationalise public infrastructure.

Ryan Chatt, Spennymoor

Having been a regular user of train services, I have seen no improvement and yet year on year price rises that far exceed salary rises. It’s a racket and it needs to stop

Phillip Crosby, London

I miss British Rail.

Sue Budd, Falmouth

Nationalise British Rail.

Andrew Wilkes, Cardiff

The rip-off is unbearable. The people’s needs should always come over the company profits. Bring back the national rail service.

James Parsons, Portsmouth

The abolition of common sense is their (ATOC’s) worst crime. Bring back British Rail now.

David Jones, Bristol

Each year I visit the UK, rail is by far the most convenient form of travel.

Roger Grauwmeijer, Dunedin, NZ

I’m a student and the fare prices are just too damned high.

Andrew Barrington, Hockley

We need a unified railway system. We need to acknowledge the environmental and public ownership benefits and run it for the public good, not for private profit.

Andrea Byrom, Leeds

The only way forward is an integrated rail system which is only possible with the re-nationalisation of the railways.

Chris Martin, Abberley

The rail system in its current form is a joke.

Tyrone Bowen, Slough

Things were so much better under BR.

Julia Burns, Cardiff

For getting to work on time, reducing road deaths, and avoiding climate collapse, we need a nationalised rail network.

David Cross, London

Why subsidise parasitic bosses when you can subsidise what are supposed to be the public services they sit on?

Thomas West

I totally agree with the cause. Some services should not be for profit. In my experience private does not always equate to efficiency.

Trevor Millington, Leeds

The present railway system is an grossly over-charged and poorly staffed system that only puts profits before people. Re-nationalisation now.

Kevin O’Connor, London

Train fares are way too overpriced.

Jon Smith, Bristol