Re-nationalisation could be designed to benefit passengers, workers and small/medium size companies as well through fair non-cartel competition. Fewer lazy fat cats.

Steve Goddard, Crawley

Good work everyone. Bring about change with peaceful non-compliance.

Jed Nejzer, Leeds

The only way to travel that makes sense. By the people for the people. The competition fallacy has derailed with the success of East Coast thus far.

Justin Grasty, York

Su Maddock is Labour PPC for Torbay. We need more investment in the railways in the Southwest – i.e. an additional line to Plymouth.

Su Maddock, Torbay

Chiltern amended a perfectly good timetable with disastrous results.

KC Mull, Banbury

Private interests should not profit from national infrastructure or a national service or a national utility at the expense of the public.

Edward Freeman, Dundee

Buying a train ticket is a lottery and just not affordable except in advance.

Mat Fleming

Year on year out we get fleeced. Enough is enough.

Daniel York, London

I don’t use the railway so much now – prices are too high, and station staffing is poor.

Alan Etheridge, Southampton

Rail should be under unified public ownership, only more accountable than it was before to passengers and employees.

Sue Sparks, London

I support this totally.

Gary Taylor, Epsom

I like trains and want to see more trains without the trains being owned by bad train companies.

Geiif Mcghee, France

British Rail, one company, one network.

Janet Francis, Welwyn Garden City

The system at present, with so many companies, is too complicated, particularly when planning a cross country route. Fares are complicated and expensive. No one seems accountable.

Carl Spurling, Frodsham

The fact the privatised rail companies collectively receive more in subsidies than British Rail ever did is sufficient reason alone to support this petition.

Cecilia Iredale, Hockley

As a member of the Labour Party, I want to take back our railways. Let’s shake the leadership and inject some socialism back in.

Luke Durrant, Norwich

The profits made by the East Coast service in public hands go directly into the public purse and not to shareholders. We should not renew any more rail franchises.

Liz Walker, Cambridge

It’s something that has exploited the working people and we need to take back control.

Aaron Omeroglu, Haywards Heath

Rail privatisation – made for ideological reasons and to remove subsidies from government funds. Now subsidies are higher than before. I.

Gareth Gwyn-Jones, Barnet

If it can be as good as East Coast.

Marc Seccombe, Doncaster

I’ve noticed changes already. Where was our referendum on this?

Christine Gooddy, Bolton

Definitely bring it back. I’m just fed up hearing about these price hikes all the time.

Christine Maloney, Romford

Essential services should be provided by taxes – not toys for corporations to rake in the profits and screw the people they know have no other choice of travel.

Liam Murphy, Birmingham

If so many European countries believe their railways should be nationalised, why should Britain not follow their wisdom?

Arn Dekker, Cambridge

We need a publicly-owned, accountable and affordable railway more than ever at this time of austerity and climate change. Rail rather than more short haul flights.

Fliss Premru, London

There are so many social and environmental benefits from having a well-used railway system. It is not suitable to be run by short-termist corporations.

Marie McCahery, Bradford

I want to see an end to days where travelling on trains causes anxiety because employees treat passengers as potential cheats rather than decent citizens.

Brian Wilkinson, Harrogate

Profit-driven companies do not prioritise the needs of the country.

Julia Gavriel, Canterbury

The service we get from the profiteers is abysmal and inexcusable. We need a proper public service.

Robbie Bourget, Slough