I wish we could bring back British Rail trains and Inter City, Inter City Eurostar, British Rail ferries.

Mike D’ambrogio, Liverpool

Retired rail worker, both British Rail and private. I know which is best for the country. BBBR.

Alan Ransley, Broadstairs

Public assets should never be privatised – it’s a retrograde step. They belong to the nation, not to wealthy individuals – it’s ridiculous. Re-nationalise now.

Geraldine Rose, Calver, Hope Valley

Privatisation has caused inferior service. The railways and the power companies should be re-nationalised.

Joan Foye, Ossett

There is no valid reason for keeping the railways in private hands. The model has miserably failed. This is resulting in underused transport rail service and clogged roads.

Neraj Sharma, Milton Keynes

Dedicate real investment for serious mass transit projects that realise the full benefits of existing rail alignments.

Krystal Garnett, Merseyside

20 years of poor service, extortionate fares and lame excuses. It’s time for re-nationalisation.

Martin Bailey, York

Bring BR back. SouthEastern and the others are a joke, and are ripping us all off.

Glen Reeves, Folkestone

One of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long while.

Kai Motta, Kent

The railways are and always were a public service, not an opportunity for profiteering at the public’s expense.

Peter Flack, Leicester

British Rail gave a comprehensive straightforward national service instead of the current fragmented service which has to pay for dozens of chief executives.

Terry Bigley, Hinckley

Railways run for people not profit.

Christopher Madden, Liverpool

The service run by the train companies in Britain is embarrassing. Nowhere else in the world is rail travel so prohibitively expensive.

Mary Newman, London

End the farce and re-nationalise the railways. I travel to and from Cumbria by train and have never arrived on time in any direction. Also the fares are so expensive,

Glyn Jones, Dartford

Words fail me.

Cassy Firth, Leeds

The railways should be affordable for everyone and not a shareholders’ ticket to make money.

Alan Currie, Margate

I’m signing this petition because I want them to bring British Rail back, because it was such an amazing railway company and I think it should be brought back to life.

Jamie Mascall, Coningsby

Why should the UK have the most expensive and least attractive trains in Europe?

Bruce Barnes, Bradford

It’s no joke when you can’t visit your family as much as you would like due to over-inflated fares.

Patricia Jones, Birkenhead

I am a firm believer in Bring back British Rail – one railway, one train operator, one company.

Simon Pawelko, Llanelli

Trains should be easy to access and cheap for all. This is not the case with the current, failing system.

Peter De Sousa, Portsmouth

Bring back BR, especily BR blue. It should all be about the passengers.

Shaun Henry, Liverpool

Bring back British Rail and get rid of this joke of a railway we now have.

Paul Smith, Sheffield

Nationalise the entire rail system, permanently.

Robert Slater, Herne Bay

Railways need to be in public ownership. We would save one billion a year.

Anna Worthy, Sunderland

Railways now, power and water next.

Mike Hughes, London

It seems strange to be subsidising multi-millionaires to run our rail system, yet cutting benefits for some of our most vulnerable citizens.

Brian Marden, Oban

We need a railway system that works for the users not the shareholders.

Valerie McIntosh, Warrington

Rationalise our railways.

Chris Challinor, Sheffield