Third world service for first class prices. I’m sick of spending insane amounts of money on trains that are terrible.

Katerina Turner, Chelsmford

Do what other countries do and subsidise the rail network and bring back British Rail. It worked.

Elizabeth Plumb, Cambridge

Bring the railways under public control.

Mehdi Husaini, Middlesbrough

Re-nationalise all necessary facilities, not only the rail.

David Gatward, Cardiff

The current rail service is not good for taxpayers or consumers and was a poor decision made by government.

Claire Wilkinson, Bedale

British Rail was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it was better than what we tolerate now. ECML have shown what can be achieved. Now for the rest.

Peter Brown, London

Give the railways back to the people.

Ellie Rose Elliott, Whitley Bay

Reverse Beeching’s and Thatcher’s criminality.

David Rigg, Dumfries

Rail profits back to the people.

Patricia Burn, Manchester

Rail privatisation has been a gravy train for incompetent private companies. The chaos of it is staggering. Other national railways are walking off with profits from us.

Bernard Freudenthal, London

It should never have been privatised in the first place.

Frederic Bayer, Bexhill-on-Sea

It was doing okay, so why was it changed?

Pam Heynes, Carnforth

Re-nationalise our railways now.

David Berry, Wigan

And all other public services too.

Dave Wells, Swindon

With the present divisive system there is no co-ordination, only feeble excuses.

Lee Ward, London

The last two decades have been a very expensive farce. It’s been tried, it’s failed. I’m tired of subsidising the private shareholders with my taxes.

John Walker, Bristol

Privatisation has made the railways much worse.

Ralph Baker, Margate

Something has to be done to sort out the mess of our railways. My train was late by 6 minutes and the connection was allowed to go because it was another company.

Thomas Glenn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Privatised rail is a confused, inefficient, prohibitively expensive mess.

Neville Akroyd, Launceston

Help save the public money.

Darryl Redshaw, Brigg

A united rail network under one management team is essential.

Janet Stanton, Bath

Privatisation has failed. It’s time for a nationalised future.

Paul Stallard, Sheffield

Transport for people, not profit.

Caroline Taylor-Martin, Bromley

Public services privatisation can only equate to private profits and public losses. And so two directors of Thameslink line are paid £3.4million in salaries + bonuses.

Meera Patel, London

bring it back. Things are a joke with these companies!!!

Ellen Robson, Hemel Hempstead

Bring back British Rail.

Mary Ireson, Isle of Mull

Bring back nationalised rail, please.

Thomas Knowler, Tunbridge Wells

John Major stole the railways and sold them to his friends. It’s time to take back our railway.

Stuart Grant, London

Instead of senseless profit-driven competition we want safe, reliable public transport.

Michael Futers, Derby

Get shot of these pseudo-competitive private monopolies where the toilets close as if no one needs to go after 22:00. We need to return our railways to a public service.

Charles Leeves-Kimber, Basingstoke