Simon Aves, EdinburghThe best part of the rail service these days is East Coast. Stop the privatisation, learn from the lesson of this publicly owned company.
Thomas John Wheeler, DyfedThe rolling stock leasing companies swallow up a hundred thousand pounds a year for each and every train – that money goes straight down the drain.
Tim Miles, LondonIt’s an essential public service.
Alison Affleck, StroudThe current service is impossible for elderly or disabled. And for fully able bodied and mind. All British Rail ever did wrong was limp lettuce in the sandwiches.
Margaret Berry, NottinghamThe railways should be for people, not private profit.
Curtis Ablitt, KidderminsterBring Back BR.
Emily Ormerod, OxfordRe-nationalise British Rail and re-connect with the bus timetable so that people can plan an entire journey as we used to.
Eddie Kelly, PeterboroughI cannot believe that it is appropriate for German and French nationalised rail companies to run British Rail, while our own success stories, like East Coast Trains, cannot.
Courtney Williams, AngleseyI travel on a bus for two to three hours extra to go to university and back as the trains are too expensive. It saves me about £26 per week.
Pier Hausemer, SalisburyIt can be done, if only there is a political will. Do it for the people of Great Britain.
Mark Turnock, LondonBring back British Rail, accept that privatisation is a failure and let’s start to rebuild for the future!
Fiona Brice, HoveEnd over-complicated fare structures.
Debs Connors, WirralBring back everything British to the people as the shareholders have taken enough.
Tony Newman, GuildfordWe need a properly integrated system serving people instead of private profit.
Frances McGinlay, LargsJust bring it back.
Adam Lilley, BirminghamBecause the current system is still costing the taxpayer millions, even though we then pay all over again when we buy our tickets.
Tony Atkin, GranthamI fully agree.
Shirley Ford, South ShieldsI’m fighting for this in the Green Party, standing for Euro elections and this will be a campaign issue.
Gerald Guthrie, GlasgowThe private companies are bidding too much for franchises and trying to balance the books by job cuts.
Pamela McFarlane, IpswichThe prices are too ridiculous. I’m spending a quarter of my monthly wage on trains.
Karl Roome, LeedsSort it out.
Sue Millman, LondonPrivatisation hasn’t worked. Re-nationalise now.
Tom Organ, BristolIt’s now become the elephant in the room. Stop haemorrhaging money from the railways to shareholders now.
Douglas Arnold, WashingtonEast Coast is making money and they want to sell it off. It may finish up in foreign hands with our money going abroad, We need a joined-up railway system.
Abby Sullivan, LondonPublic transport should be in public hands. Our taxes shouldn’t be going to private corporations to make profit for them: they should go towards a better service.
Leslie Allan, Whitley BayEast Coast is a well run and efficient organisation, with helpful and friendly staff. Also it makes a healthy profit, more than Virgin and much more than First Great Western.
Angharad Bethan Davies, BristolWe were promised that privatisation would reduce cost and improve services due to competition but the exact opposite has happened.
Eddie Saunders, DoverI have 24 years as a railway employee. I want us to be providing a service, not a business.
Maureen Smith, Sutton ColdfieldI preferred British Rail. It would be more cohesive, good for people, lower fares.
Robert Morris, UttoxeterAfter travelling to many European countries and using their train systems it is easy to see what we must do to fix our horrendous train service in the U.K.