Pauline Wickham, Newcastle-upon-TyneWe need an integrated rail service which offers affordable travel to reduce pollution and congestion on our roads.
Ruth Charlton, IlkleyTransport for the people.
David Wilson, GatesheadRun rail for the people not for profit.
Teresa Wormald, KnaresboroughThe system requires unification. Trains used to connect with one another but no longer do so. Ticket purchase was much simpler and the ticket was valid for all lines.
Steven Lockwood, DerbyPrivatisation of strategic services is an obvious mistake.
Judy Sleath, NottinghamI would like to travel on trains but they’re just too expensive. Surely, if fares were cheaper and services joined up, more people would buy tickets.
Colton McKenna, KilwinningThe British people deserve British Rail back.
Geoff Lamb, East GrinsteadAnd nationalise it as well.
Andrea Bayer, BexhillNational wealth is the people’s wealth. No government is entitled to sell national wealth without asking it’s owners, the people.
Birgit Cunningham, LondonWe are sick to death of the line ‘That is another company’.
Margaret Worrall, AberdourScotRail has been taken over by Abellio, an apparently good Dutch company, from First, a crap Scottish company. All British public ownership would seem a better idea.
Liz Stewart, WithamPlease return to providing a safe and affordable service for people.
Stuart Wilson, NorwichThe unification of the train operators with the infrastructure is a must for a commonsensical rail network.
Dan Marston, NottinghamThis summer we travelled by rail right across Germany with two bicycles. We paid 26 euros each and we bought the tickets the same morning on the platform.
David Kingston, WimborneIt’s too important to be run as it is.
Rich Larkin, SunderlandInfrequent, unaffordable and useless shareholder-focused. This is the reality of rail travel in the UK 2014. British Rail was better for us the people and we want it back.
Neil Walker, GloucesterStop this creeping privatisation of everything.
Jamie Thomas, DurhamPrivatisation has failed passengers. The taxpayer is still funding the railway. We should own it.
Charlotte Sharpe, FromeRe-nationalise the railways and save our transport infrastructure for future generations to develop and improve.
Stephen Chambers, StroodI work on the railways and my job has been destroyed by private companies. It would be much bettter off being nationalised.
John Richardson, BlackpoolBritish Rail, gas and electricity should never have been sold, because they belonged to the people and should all be brought back to where they belong.
John Brunton, LondonWhen New Labour welched on its promise to re-nationalise in 1997, I knew something had gone wrong. It’s time to see the railways benefit people again.
Brian Muston, Minster-on-SeaI totally agree the money being given to the private operators should be used to improve the network.
Lee Richardson, DarlingtonI have worked on the railway for 13 years and can honestly say that this is the only way forward for the rail industry.
Darren BullBring back British Rail.
Rachel Cholerton, ReadingFirst Great Western has a shocking service, not worthy of being on the tracks.
Robert Steel, CambridgeAll vital infrastructure and utilities should be nationally owned.
Leslie Scaife, SouthportApart from the massive debt, fares have risen out of all proportion and they are still getting funding from the public purse. Shareholders win and taxpayers lose.
Paul BrightA new great British Rail is central to the UK being suitable for international meetings at the heart of Europe.
Matthew Shewbridge, LondonBusiness and railways don’t mix. As a natural monopoly, there is no real competition amongst providers to deliver a service of good value and high quality.