Grace Hardy, TwyfordRun an efficient service or lower prices.
Lorna Robertson, SurreyAn essential service should not be run for profit but as a service.
Derrick Joyce, Newbiggin by the SeaThe privatisation of British Rail is a failure and, like many other utilities, needs to be nationalised urgently.
Lucy Miller, LondonWe cannot continue the way we are going – the most expensive and one of the most appalling services in Europe. We need investment and change now.
Helen Amphlett, TewkesburyCompletely overpriced for the service and comfort of the trains. Always my last resort.
Nigel Smith, YorkAll public utilities should be nationalised and most ordinary citizens would agree.
Ruslan Kim, HamptonInconsistent fares, poor connections, confusion and delays are results of a privatised British Rail. Bring it back, the only way to make it right.
George Clements, PooleToo expensive.
Trev Davis, GloucesterThis would stop us being ripped off by all the different train companies and the profits staying in this country.
Nick Haeffner, LondonOut with the miserable, gouging private sector vampires – Atos, Serco and G4S are a disgrace too. Get rid of them all.
Jerry Hepworth, LowestoftThis country, which invented railways, deserves an integrated, comprehensive and affordable railway network. No more foreign-built rolling stock. Let’s buy British.
Ryan McGrath, BristolPrivatised train services are a rip-off.
Hazel Burns, Dunham-on-TrentStop privatisation and serve the people. They pay enough tax.
David Boyson, PortsmouthThe British system is a joke across Europe. That heavily subsidised private companies can be based in tax havens frankly offends me.
Robert Harper, NottinghamPrivatisation hasn’t worked for the travelling public. Politicians, their friends, corporate bodies, the City etc. have profited from privatisation. It’s a public service.
William Hall, HatfieldPrivatise rail companies put profits ahead of passengers and continue to offer the travelling public a third rate service.
Joan Slater, KempstonWe in Bedford have changed the wretched franchise and who knows who is pretending to run it.
Athel Dunning, LondonOnly an idiot could think that giving a national network to the private sector could possibly save money for the people who use it.
Rosie Dee, BristolWe as a population have paid for these public institutions. How dare our elected government decide to sell it all off.
J Mark McCoy, LondonThe current rail system is an expensive shambles, rip-off for hapless passengers and an embarrassment to all.
John Perkins, LondonTake it out of the hands of profiteers.
Maggie Black, Staines-upon-ThamesRemember how much better it all was before privatisation.
Jennifer Hobson, LapfordPrivatisation has produced a worsening service.
Jackie Smith, LondonIt’s got to be a joke the overcrowding on London trains and the regular price rises above the rate of inflation. Yet shareholders get returns and bosses get bonuses.
Alan Bond, WatchetRailway privatisation is proof of the saying ‘bullshit baffles brains’. Lies and propaganda from the railway industry crooks are not acceptable any more.
Steve Lawlor, PurleyWe need a proper railway service, not the one we have at the moment.
Helen Haynes, Kings LangleyPassengers not profits.
Mary Cotterill, NottinghamThis was another national asset sold off cheap under the same mantra that privatisation would make the railways more efficient and competition would keep prices down.
Zoe Mercer, LondonWouldn’t it be better if profits went back into the service and any excess goes back into public coffers?
Jane Gannaway, LincolnThe railways are an essential part of our national transport system and all profits should be used to maintain and upgrade the system, not siphoned of by the fat cats.