Jeff McCracken, GlasgowSocialise BR now.
Alan Roberts, DingwallPublic rail transport isn’t working. It’s no longer a reliable way of getting to where you need to be on time. In the north of Scotland people are returning to their cars.
George Lynes, AbingdonYou know it makes sense. Why subsidise train operating companies with taxpayers’ money so they can pay dividends to their shareholders?
Kevin Morris, BradfordTotally necessary.
Alison Harris, PontefractRailways and other forms of public transport should be subsidised by the state for the benefit of the users and employees and not for shareholders in private companies.
Joe Bell, CarlisleBring back nationalisation and pride in our railways.
Irene Rhodes, WakefieldThis is a no-brainer. Profit has become a very dirty word. Basic services, i.e. our infrastructure, should belong to all for the good of all.
Fiona Radic, PeterboroughEast Coast has been magnificent in public hands: popular, profitable and working for passengers not shareholders.
Dimitri Stama, LondonCrippling our economy with poor and over-priced transport systems is not how the UK should be treated. My wife has to pay over 10% of her salary for her train ticket.
Verity Dams, SwindonAs an actor I have to travel all over the place. I am just starting out, but I can’t afford to go to many an audition because of the crazy cost of train travel.
Graham Armfield, WokingThe fact that the East Coast Mainline can run well at less of a cost to taxpayers shows how rail privatisation is conning us all.
Erik Dijkshoorn, DarlingtonIt makes nothing but sense to re-nationalise all infrastructure products and use profits for sustainable development.
Michael Barr, AshteadDown with Thatcher, up the revolution.
Kevin White, HaverfordwestBring back British Rail, a transport system for the people not the rich.
Margaret Rumble, OakhamNot before time.
John Mathew, ManchesterNo more franchises.
Anthony Waldron, LutonRe-nationalise the railway system and put back the lines that the Tories removed in the 1960’s. We really need those lines to be available again.
John Tucker, BrixhamI’ve just returned from train travel through France, Italy and Switzerland and Eurostar. I then went from Paddington to Newton Abbot by First Great Western – oh dear, shameful.
J Winton, Newcastle-upon-TyneThe East Coast rail line has been in public ownership since private operators pulled out. It is now in profit.
Tom EnglandIt’s a no-brainer really.
Alex Ross, CambridgeWhy do we put up with a far worse rail infrastructure than Germany, France and Switzerland? Their governments have not let train users down.
Tracey AllenThey should never have been de-nationalised. It was nationalised because it didn’t work as a mish-mash of companies.
Jo Boorman, OrpingtonSince de-nationalisation rail prices have gone up and up, especially in London and the South-east, whilst services have got worse, with trains arriving late or not at all.
David Clayton, YorkBR put in the electric East Coast but were never allowed to make money from it. Pride in British railways. The logo means something to be proud of. BR were improving.
Douglas Macari, CanterburyRe-nationalise the railways. They belong to the people.
Ben Gibbons, BristolReverse everything done by Thatcher.
Simon Iremonger, CambridgeDelay Attribution Board says it all…
Chris Brown, Wimborne MinsterRail services need to be delivered by a unitary authority which will save duplication, increase safety for employees and passengers and focus upon developing services.
Neil Walker, GloucesterStop this creeping privatisation of everything.
Glyn Morrow, YorkThe selling off of British Rail was a cynical disaster on a par with Beeching’s disastrous decimation of our rail network in the Sixties.