Grace Hardy, TwyfordRun an efficient service or lower prices.
Marylyn Edwards, TonbridgeThe railways and all public transport should be for the people, not for profits.
Jacqueline Gordon, Haywards HeathIt’s no longer affordable to travel by rail anywhere in the UK. Goodbye to relatives who live far away from each other. More loneliness. Very sad indeed.
Jonathan Kershaw, SalisburyPrivate companies’ primary duty is to their shareholders, not passengers. People (workers) and service should come first, not profit.
Linda Walker, BirminghamWe need a good reliable, reasonable travel network to support and reduce the amount of traffic on our congested road network.
Marion Perrett, LeedsI use East Coast a lot and I love it. Public transport should not be a private enterprise – it should belong to those who use it – us.
Alan Brown, HullBR wasn’t perfect but it did usually have sufficient carriages to fulfil a generally decent service. The TOCs claim rail growth is due to their efforts. It’s not.
Oliver Hickmet, LondonEnough is Enough. Stop robbing people and making their lives a misery. All everyone wants is to be able to get to their job at an affordable cost.
Vera Green, MacclesfieldServices before profit.
Chris Lemin, LondonPrivate enterprise has been a disaster for the railways.
Paul Lock, StroudPrivatisation has been an unmitigated disaster.
Gerlinde Rambausek, FromeI’d love to have a unified, publicly-owned railway.
Brian Evans, AltrinchamIt was stupid to start with and, as time goes on, seems even more stupid to privatise the railways.
Ashley Woosnam, NorthamptonRe-nationalize BR as soon as possible. I’m sick of ever-increasing ticket prices, whilst services get worse, together with the attitude of station staff.
Mark Turnock, LondonBring back British Rail, accept that privatisation is a failure and let’s start to rebuild for the future!
Ralph Butler, SouthportIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Tony Newman, GuildfordWe need a properly integrated system serving people instead of private profit.
Colin Openshaw, OxfordPlease.
Tom MorrisRailways aren’t a market. If I don’t like, say, the London to Bristol train, I can’t choose a different train company. Capitalism without competition is just profiteering.
Ken Lee, TruroThe nation that gave railways to the World, has given away its railways.
Farouk Sohawon, LondonBringing the railway network into public ownership will put some order in and focus on the industry.
Richard Hampson, PeterboroughPrivatisation only lines the pockets of greedy people while everyone else loses out. Oh but wait, that’s what’s at the core of every Tory policy.
Laura Blake, StockportI’m paying more and more year on year, yet year on year the service gets worse and worse.
Jean Wilson, BradfordWe need a not-for-profit rail network. East Coast has succeeded since being taken out of failing private hands. Bonuses and payments to shareholders put the prices up.
Marion Legge, NottinghamThe railways should never have been privatised.
Martyn Bissett, StirlingTaking the train between Scotland and London has just become unaffordable for me.
David Wallis, GranthamThe current mess is exactly that – a mess.
Eleanor Wood, Hope ValleyThe fragmenting of our rail services since privatisation has caused chaos. It wasn’t perfect before but could have been improved more efficiently as a single system.
Caroline Saville, LondonIt will be possible to achieve this with a solid grassroots movement but it’s going to be an uphill struggle.
David Ransom, BrightonRail should never have been privatised in the first place.