Privatisation is a disaster – time for new improved renationalisation!

Steph Knowles, Leicester

Over-priced privatisation kills.

Nathan Grainger, Hove

ScotRail are a joke.

Oliver Leonard, Johnstone

We need a nationalised railway. Privatisation leads to high fares and share holder pay-outs.

Derek Robertson, Arbroath

I love the railways. Bring back the old lines.

Luke Reeves, Blandford Forum

I’m sick of hearing things like your ticket is not valid on trains run by so-and-so, whereas with just one company, there would be no problem.

Barry Mahar, Frome

I’m sick of expensive fares and low service.

John Carlson, South Shields

It is absolutely ludicrous that the national rail is privatised with the fares going up every year faster than wages are increasing. They need to be re-nationalised.

Joseph Callow, Bournemouth

I’ve signed this due to finding out it costs more for a 28 minute journey from Ashford to Stratford than it does for a trip from Paris to Berlin. How can we justify this?

Jason Goodman, Canvey Island

Yes we need cheap trains.

Rob Willis, Shrewsbury

Public investment for rail users not shareholders, please.

Malcolm Lyons, Brighton

Safety and operation of our rail network should not be in private hands. We need an integrated rail system.

Jim White, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Profits should not be used to pay shareholders, they should be used to improve services.

N Summerson, Luton

I’m fed up with getting ripped off by these big private companies.

James Woodburne, Liverpool

The railway industry is costing far more to run privatised than ever it did under British Rail.

Dennis Pocock, Woking

Return the railways to the people. Five regions served by real railwaymen. Now they stuff trains in silly liveries.

Alan Smith, Rushden

We just want a radical policy from the Labour party. We don’t want to have a choice of the same 3 policies come election time.

Joe Bishop, Reading

I’ve had enough of Southeastern – they’re unreliable and too expensive.

Isabel Morgan

I’m sick of seeing profiteering from our infrastructure.

Jeff Zie, Dorking

Privatisation has been a failure, destroying the nation’s public transport and placing considerable additional costs on all users.

Peter Earl, Lewes

Never mind HS2 and HS3. Let’s just get the railways unified. BR was far from perfect, but at least fares didn’t have to include a payout for shareholders.

Janet Weston, Cowes

The privatisation of public services experiment is an unequivocal failure. It’s time to take it all back.

Kim Grais, Leeds

Put it right. Like everything else, capitalism has gone so so wrong.

Vincent Morris

South East Trains is the most terribly formed transport company I have seen.

Jareth Turner, Margate

Public transport should be public infrastructure not for profit.

Daniel Bell, Saltash

In the final years of British Rail, the Intercity sector was actually making a profit. Splitting Intercity into 6 companies was just madness!

Darren

Nationalise Network Rail now.

Malcolm Rodger, Bath

Privatisation was an absurd reversion to the 19th Century. Let’s get back to the 21st.

Peter Thompson, Bristol

Stop rail companies avoiding tax here while shipping rail profits and taxpayer subsidies abroad. East Coast line is a great example of what public ownership can do.

Robert Powell, Stockton-on-Tees

Bring back British Rail, for the people, owned by the people.

Roger Clifford, Craigavon