Luke Dickens, ManchesterUK trains are over-priced, inefficient and well behind in technology.
Nigel Holmes, HullThere is no logical reason not to return the railways to public ownership, run like a business, to keep tickets economical and benefit the travelling public.
Jack Holden, BarnsleyThey should never have been privatised in the first place.
Eirin Julie Ingebrigtsvoll, LondonFor the people, not private profit.
John Bryan, YorkTran Pennine is overcrowded and East Coast is working well. That says it all.
Terence Fullerton, DurhamThe whole issue of privatisation of public services is immoral and unjustified. Profit from public services should benefit British citizens and not private shareholders.
Robert Morris, AberystwythI thoroughly agree. De-nationalisation shouldn’t have happened in the first place and an overhaul is now overdue. The travelling public are getting poor value for money.
Sven Hanson, BrightonThe money earned from an integrated system should be used to invest in government and the railways themselves instead of lining the pockets of shareholders.
Jack Sellen, LondonI’m fed up with privatisation. It is a con.
Anne Pender, Newcastle-upon-TyneWhy change when it was flourishing?
Justin Glover, CardiffThirteen years of increased prices and increased delays with decreased services. Surely this cannot be justified.
Declan Isaac, LeedsStop the price gouging.
Pavlina Kapickova, EdinburghI think fairer ticket fees would motivate more people/families to go and explore outdoor with all its great health benefits.
Danielle O’Hara, LancashireWe have had enough. Fix this now!
Piers Baker, CanterburyI wouldn’t usually consider myself a socialist but there is no way the free market can operate in the railway system. These private rail monopolies are robber barons.
Thomas Brewis, Berwick-upon-TweedI’m fed-up with fat cats creaming off profit from what should be a nationalised industry.
Roslynn Turner, Londonthis was funded for the people by the people it should never have been a profit making private concern, which most people cannot afford.
Bill Hush, EdinburghIf the East Coast rail line can positively contribute to the public purse why can’t others?
Neil Floate, NottinghamBring back British Rail.
Katie Jamieson, LeedsPrivate companies should not be benefiting from national essential services like this. It’s like the NHS and is a disgrace.
Susan Atkins, SheffieldWe bought it – we paid for it – and now we are paying all over again and again – whilst others reap the profits.
Clive Andrews, Berwick-upon-TweedWe all knew that privatisation of our railways would not make for cheaper, more efficient, faster railway services. Now the fallacy has been exposed.
Solomon Gibson, DudleyIn a system where the workers’ travel is a necessity to the workers’ production, it is the workers who should own the means of travel.
M Spencer, LutterworthKeep British Rail as one.
Andrew Appleyard, OldhamAll public transport networks and systems should be run as not-for-profit, and all should either be re-nationalised or re-regulated whichever it is under.
Vivek Patel, LeicesterWe need cheaper public transport.
Ian Ward, BridlingtonIt’s time to take back control from fat cat shareholders and introduce cheaper travel.
James Clarke, LondonI want British Rail reinstated as I’m sick of paying fat cats and getting nothing in return. Give us back our network now.
Jenny Shevlin, LeedsThe East Coast line makes a net profit run by the public sector. Perhaps the rest can too.
Kevin Baker, CoventryIt was better when It was British Rail.