Sara Dona, LeedsI did work experience for the HSE and was shocked to find that the Potters Bar crash happened because of poor maintenance, subcontracted to unqualified people.
Jane Baghori, BristolBring it back please.
Thomas WestWhy subsidise parasitic bosses when you can subsidise what are supposed to be the public services they sit on?
Edwin Robinson, DoncasterI’m with you.
Emma Jackson, BrightonMy anxiety is through the roof because of constant delays. I’ve missed important work meetings, weddings and holidays and pay through the nose for it.
Ray Watson, WesterhamThe railways should serve the people, not Network Rail directors.
Joan George, BeaconsfieldA nationalised railway is run for people. All profit should be ploughed back into improving the service.
Bernard Freudenthal, LondonRail 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.
Peggy Clatworthy, GloucesterI can hear my two great grandfathers, grandfather and great uncle (all dedicated railway men) turning in their graves – they took such pride in their work.
Steve Beesley, LeedsAll utilities needed by the nation should be owned by the nation and run for the nation, not for profit.
Sam Wahnon, ManchesterIt costs almost £150 to get from Manchester to see family in Devon. It’s cheaper to fly to Paris. What a joke.
Jocelyn Peacock, LondonThe Secretary of State signed off the NRCoC, which means train companies are exempt from general consumer protection because of the ministerial involvement.
Barry Woolgar, BristolPrices go up, service goes down. Welcome to the private sector!
Charles Lockwood, NewarkTravellers from abroad criticise our rail system far too regularly for us to tolerate the current structure.
Ian Walker, Milton KeynesPrivatisation is an utter shambles.
Henry Saville, WallaseyI am so angered by the blatant profiteering of the train operating companies and the obvious inefficiencies created by privatisation.
Charles Andrew Rose, LondonActually, I have lived in Norway for 37 years and the railways here are still (almost entirely) publicly owned and are very good.
Lewys Hall, NottinghamPrivatisation has been a total mess, providing a second class service and extortionate fares.
Ian Allan, MargateI am a poet and satirist who wants to bite into the hotch-potch of money-grabbing rail companies.
Graham Kingdon, TruroPrivatisation is a modern disgrace.
Peter Kolodziej, LondonGood public transport is a right not a privilege. Get rid of the fat cat shareholders who take no risks but get all the profits. Privatisation has failed.
A Meredith, LondonTrain services are too complex and overpriced and the service is certainly no better than BR was.
Piet Biesheuvel, BristolWe have the most expensive railway system in the world. Why? Because of the massively poorly thought-through privatisation by the Tory government and greed.
Paul Tunney, BirminghamService or business, profit or loss, transport/communication is wonderful but at present only the elite can enjoy the benefits.
Wilson Smeaton, WoolerRailways in countries many times the size of Britain, considered to be ‘developing’, are unified and run primarily to serve the public, People before profit, please.
Douglas Raith, EdinburghPublic transport should be a service, not a cash cow.
Anthony Frewin, St AlbansPrivatisation of the railways was ideology triumphing over common sense.
Karn Purvis, Bishop’s StortfordLet’s make our rail networks as good as those in Europe and not charge the earth for them. Nationalise.
Kim Elder, WindermereGood luck.
Antony Hearmon, LondonAll utilities, mail etc. education, services, transport should be apolitical and not run for private profit.