Alison Goodrick, Barrow-in-FurnessBring back British Rail. Current rail travel is too complicated, too expensive and not user-friendly. I travelled on better, easier, cheaper trains in Romania and in Rome.
Nathaniel Dodd, ChelmsfordRead ‘On the Wrong Line’ by Christian Wolmar. It’s right to Bring Back British Rail.
Scott Rundle, OxfordBring back a national rail system. Privatisation hasn’t worked.
Antoine Sud, WimbledonIt sounded like a good idea in theory 30 years ago, but politicians need to admit it has failed in practice.
Andrew Thomas, CreweLet’s put the “British” back into our rail network, not fat Euro-cats having the profits and being paid to run our services
Emma Andrews, TruroBring back British Rail.
Petra Mo, AurovilleTrains make a lot more sense at least for short to medium trips. Please.
Colin Lewis, LondonBring back British Rail now.
Bernard Abel, LangleyDisgusted with the fare increase. Not only, de we have the worse network in Europe bit it is the most expensive one… Fed up!
Lee Rigby, WidnesRe-nationalise the railways.
Neil Turner, BridgendIt has been one of our most disastrous and pointless privatisations, contradicted by such a large proportion of the TOCs being owned by other countries’ state transport.
Don Beattie, MiddlesbroughAbout bloody time, every rise in rail fares is subsidising profits for these fat cat owners in their own countries. Re-nationalise now.
Syafiq Asyraf, KedahPlease show some love and respect to this beautiful word “railway”.
Nigella Kennedy, LondonYes, we would sincerely like British Rail to be brought back to the British public.
Lee Milne, Great YarmouthRe-nationalise the railways for cheaper fares and better service. Some commuters are paying through the nose for train travel.
Dean Brown, EnfieldRe-nationalise our railways.
Sue Budd, FalmouthI miss British Rail.
Bob Jones, WolverhamptonMost rail services in this country are run by nationalised railways – just not our nationalised railway.
Brian Alston, MaidstoneThe country needs an efficient integrated railway system to facilitate economic growth.
Daniel Stafford, KnutsfordI’m extremely lucky if I get a seat. It got that bad I decided to buy a car and drive, as it works out more cost-effective and far less stressful.
David McKay, PontefractBritish Rail should be operated for transport, not profit.
Frances Tham, LondonThis Government should be sacked.
Ann Spicer, CambridgeThey should never have privatised this in the first place. Let’s make it right
Ron Marsden, ManchesterI overheard people in a pub who didn’t know that BR had been privatised, but they knew that it was subsidised and were annoyed by this.
Jason Blean, GlasgowBring us into line with France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the US and others – reasonable rail fares – it’s a necessity.
Gill Cookson, Sennen CoveRe-nationalising the railways is the only rational solution.
Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen, BathIt is high time that railways were run for the benefit of all passengers rather than the profits of private stakeholders
Lynda Edwards, NorwichWhy have separate train and track companies? No wonder passengers, who pay high fares, are being let down frequently.
Dave Makin, KetteringIf BR had had the same financial injection of cash that Network Rail is having the whole network would have been modernised by now.
David PenningtonWhy should I suffer with no trains running on a Sunday? There should be the same number of trains running at the weekend if people need to travel!