David Brown, RothburyPrivatisation is about shareholders’ profits and is not about service to passengers. We want our railways back.
Otto Linden, LydneyIt’s just getting ridiculous.
Howard Sanders, CrawleyThis situation is inefficient and costly. West Coast would be better off in state hands.
Richard Jarvis, LeicesterTrain fares are just too high. I work for a charity and year-on-year increases in ticket prices wipe out any salary increase I receive.
Mark Beeby, NorwichThis isn’t competition, it’s theft. I’m a life long Tory voter, but if Labour fix the utilities they’ll have my vote come the next election.
M J Bailey, CarmarthenI’m definitely in favour of re-nationalising the railway system (what we have left of it in Wales.)
Daniel Ferry, BlythBring British Rail back to make trains better.
Dominic Hinkins, BostonBring back nationalised railways.
Steven Partington, BoltonMay it be.
Scott Brady, BurntislandEast Coast has failed in private hands, worked profitably for the state, yet has been returned to the private sector. Bonkers.
Katie Goodwin, TadleyThe Great Train Robbery – the British privatised rail network.
Lesley Homer, DunstableI’m fed up with tickets not allowing you on certain trains. It happens too often to us. We don’t want money-grabbing shareholders taking the profits. Plough it back into travel.
Andrew Smith, BoltonBolton to Manchester at peak times shows Northern’s contempt and lack of care for their passengers.
Graham Hargreaves, CaernarfonOnce we had a railway, now it’s gone, blimey that is sure a crime.
Ian Gaynor-Kirk, FalkirkI note the escalating subsidy and fares post privatisation. It was a bad idea and did not introduce true competition. East Coast is actually paying money to the Treasury.
Carolyn Mayne, GuildfordWe need a public service, run for the public with the interests of passengers, not shareholders, at heart.
Shaun Wood, AltonTrains are public transport not low fare airlines. Tickets should cost no more on the day of travel than in advance.
Tahir Amin, ManchesterBring back British Rail.
Alastair Smith, BingleyAfter 19 years of being informed that “we are getting there”, I see no improvement on the legacy of the British Railways Board in 1994. In fact a deterioration is evident.
Fernando Hernandez, LondonRe-nationalise now.
Vorn Hancock, CambridgeNot everything in society needs to be organised to be profitable.
Richard Spencer, ChippenhamIs the BR logo meant to be the wrong way round? Seriously the main aim must be to simplify the industry and reduce the number of expensive interfaces that currently exist.
David Calvert, SkegnessPrivatisation has been a disaster from the start. It was never the Government’s to sell in the first place. We the taxpayers owned it, not the politicians.
Richard Speight, BarnsleyWe need to get the railways back under public ownership, along with the utility companies.
Rob Smith, HawickBBBR.
Paul Docherty, LondonLet’s get the profiteers out of our railways and re-invest profits back into the industry. Keep the guards on the trains.
Stuart Jeffery, MaidstoneBring BR back and invest in it properly. Public transport should be for public service not private profit.
Steve King, Royal Tunbridge WellsWe need to do something because soon Kent to Manchester will cost over
Neill Hendry, Henley-on-ThamesWe need to return to an integrated rail system that puts its customers and employees first.
Conor Murphy, HuddersfieldNationalised means better fares, better service and direct, competent ownership. Look at DB in Germany. Public can also mean profit.