Please bring it all back to reality.

Charlotte Graham, Huddersfield

The current system is uniquely stupid. Dogma should not be the starting point for delivering such a vital public service.

Noel Inge, Harrold, Beds

Our rail fares are the highest in Europe.

Barbara Penny, Harrogate

Private ownership of rail companies puts profit before customers and allows private companies to profit from failure. This is unacceptable and needs to change.

Joshua Harper, Manchester

I’m fed up with tickets not allowing you on certain trains. It happens too often to us. We don’t want money-grabbing shareholders taking the profits. Plough it back into travel.

Lesley Homer, Dunstable

Please check your records as I may have already signed this petition.

Edward Washington

Nothing taken out of public ownership is an improvement. All they are interested in are profits for shareholders. The only losers are the consumers.

John McIntosh, Thornhill

Some things in life should never be privatised. Education, the NHS, the Police, the Post Office and the Railways.

Bobbie Syrett, Leeds

The railway system is a mess. It is hard to book tickets at sensible prices, our local trains are full, in bad condition and uncomfortable while rural areas are neglected.

Cathrine Simmons, Great Torrington

Our railways should be publicly owned and accountable. Privatisation has been a nightmare. Ticket prices are like playing the lottery.

Claire Constable, London

I work for the Kent train operating company and I would rather be working for a company that is a not for shareholders’ profit.

Paul Doe, Crowborough

End over-complicated fare structures.

Fiona Brice, Hove

Having experienced the shambles of Southern and the marginally better Arriva Trains Wales services it is high time they were done away with and re-nationalised.

Gordon Leach, Portslade

Best job I ever had all under one umbrella.

Mal Rothwell, Plymouth

Get it back for the people of the UK.

Wendy Bennett, Wallasey

Incredible campaign and petition! This brings me such hope. Thank you! Our earth needs affordable public transport for all!

Alice Ellis-Bray, Penzance

Imagine BR with the amount of funding all these companies get and the only compensation payments were to end users not the paper excuses we have now.

Michael Jones, Shrewsbury

Travel by rail is overly expensive, complicated, frustrating. The service is poor – trains are late on a daily basis – trains are dirty with toilets frequently overflowing.

Caroline Winn

As a kid I could travel anywhere safely at low cost, including those great day trips tickets. Now I can’t afford to go anywhere in UK as I get coach sick.

Nancy Jones, Folkestone

We need a co-ordinated national network for the benefit of passengers and fright, with any profits going back into the network, not shareholders’ pockets.

Michael Nash, Fetcham

Bring back BR.

Hany Taha, Bognor Regis

The people need to make sacrifices and boycott the rail network. Nothing will ever change until the companies that run the rails lose money. A few days would be enough.

Graham Harrison, Oldham

I want rail fares to be the same tariff wherever I go. It’s too complicated trying to find the best deals for an elderly pensioner.

Jeanne Ross-Osborne, Southampton

The prices are too ridiculous. I’m spending a quarter of my monthly wage on trains.

Pamela McFarlane, Ipswich

Bring back our British Rail. It is for the people of Britain and not for the profit of these greedy selfish fat cats.

Christopher Teitge, Stafford

I’m fed up with the awful trains that run in our region (Northern Rail).

Michael John Rutland, Stockton-on-Tees

Actually, the railways secretly remained nationalised, in the sense that the government pays for them. But they makes us think they’re private, because they don’t run them anymore.

Nigel Miller, Wallington

Whose Railways? Ours. Give back our railways.

Peter Sains, Bishop Auckland

By the people for the people.

Sarah Haworth, Devon

Privatisation has meant soaring ticket prices, ever larger subsidies and inferior service. Transport in the hands of the state (East Coast) will always outperform private.

Peter Sansom, Glasgow