Alan Hill, CamelfordWe want an integrated and expanding system to increase the coverage to areas that were axed as part of the corrupt Beeching plan.
Robert Rush, OkehamptonThe state of our railway system in the South West is the fault of successive governments. Please help fix it by campaigning to bring it back to public ownership.
Michael Hinchcliffe, EdinburghAlthough I have written Edinburgh in the above space for city, I’m from Leeds and travel home regularly. The cost of these train fares is ridiculous and I’m sick of it.
Mavis Orwin, ChesterfieldBring back our system.
Rosie Butterworth, OrpingtonNationalised services are more accountable, therefore provide better service and are more cost-effective.
James Dinsdale, MiddlesbroughPrivatisation does not work. The gas and electricity proves that we are all being ripped off.
Dennis Pritchard, GlasgowPeople before profits and shareholders.
Donald Bladwin, TattershallThe railways were a national asset, but now they are used to finance other countries. The railways of Britain should be for the people.
Harry White, CheltenhamVote Labour. Renationalise the rails.
Jonathan Coope, NottinghamIt should never have been privatised. Our privatised railways are the best advert I can think of for nationalising the railways.
Rob Jell, SwindonIt’s high time that all services like these were returned to public control, giving a greater buying power, ensuring a much better service and price for customers.
Daniel Sharples, WarringtonHow can a billionaire like Richard Branson truly care about everyday people?
Gillian Harris, LancingRailways for progress not private profit. One government-owned company for cheap fares and efficiency.
Glyn Roberts, LondonI love train travel and see it as an essential public service – not a private business. A nationalised rail network makes perfect sense.
William Power, RoystonIt has got to the stage when it is cheaper to fly than catch a train Jaw dropping prices and having to search loads of internet sites just to find a reasonable fare.
Peter Burns, NewportPrivatisation can only work where there is competition. With rail we have massive regional monopolies taking all the reward, paying no investment and are even subsidised.
David Chaney, Newcastle-upon-TyneA disastrous privatisation that should be overturned a.s.a.p.
David Arscott, OkehamptonPublic use so public ownership.
Jaqueline Silva, Haywards HeathUnaffordable poor service! I can just about afford going to work. Stop punishing the workers. We pay for everything!
Edwin Robinson, DoncasterI’m with you.
Antonios Bakouris, BrightonI have been commuting to work to London for 18 years. The train service is getting more expensive and worse to an unacceptable level.
Babel Wallace, LondonIt’s time we had more say on public services.
Susan Gentleman, EnfieldA comprehensive national rail system is essential. Nationalise it in order to have a comprehensive system with profits kept for re-investment.
Lorraine Bond, DunstableIt was the best in the world. Never mind shareholders. Give it back to the public.
Dwayne Wright, WolverhamptonThe competition argument doesn’t and hasn’t worked for our rail services.
Michael Markson, LondonPrivatisation of our railways has been an abject, expensive failure..John Major should hang his head in shame.
Anthony Bacon, Bradleystoke, BristolI was always taught if it wasn’t broke don’t fix it. Think how many people would use the railways if it was state-owned with the prices low.
Chuck Elliot, SheffieldPrivatised railways make no sense. Competition is impossible within rail services. Nationalisation is the only sensible policy.
Peter LucasSouthern strikes are showing that the private sector is not more efficient at running the railways.
Graeme Braisby, BarnsleyAll utilities, rail and road, should be owned by the British people and not for private profit. They are everyday necessities.