Su Maddock is Labour PPC for Torbay. We need more investment in the railways in the Southwest – i.e. an additional line to Plymouth.

Su Maddock, Torbay

Good on you.

Sally Lemsford

East Coast has performed efficiently and profitably since being temporarily back with us. It’s time for a full re-nationalisation.

Michael Clarke, Plymouth

Re-nationalise it all!

Matty Nesbitt, Liverpool

Investment and improvement, not profit.

Jason Slade, Brighton

Give it back to the public who own it and stop the profits going to shareholders.

Ernie Mirfin, Ashford

Please keep the rail network in public, not private, hands.

Robin Allen, Wellingborough

It can’t be any more expensive than it already is.

Ross Wright, Kirriemuir

I hope this campaign makes an impact. Fare prices have become utterly ridiculous.

Mark Harvey, Exeter

This increase is just too much on the already high prices. It’s pricing young adult commuters out of the market and cuts into already low salaries. It’s just too much.

Jennifer Lynch, London

The Green Party are fighting to bring the rail network back into public ownership.

Will Duckworth, Dudley

All public utilities should be nationalised and most ordinary citizens would agree.

Nigel Smith, York

Without the good infrastructure left by BR, the railways would be crippled by now.

Tom McKeown, Birkenhead

I am just sick to the teeth of the year-on-year above inflation price hikes. Passengers are being fleeced, pure and simple . Enough is enough.

Andy Wilkinson, Norwich

Privatisation produces profits for the privateers and their shareholders at the expense of service users and the community.

Jim Dignan, Sheffield

It is obscene that Government revenue support to train operating companies goes directly to shareholder pockets, instead of being invested in the service.

Michael Denholm, Dunbar

Privatisation of such a valuable service was a catastrophe from the start, so let’s rectify the mistakes of the past.

Benjamin Walker, Manchester

It should never have been privatised. Over priced, badly managed and most profits go abroad.

Sarah Carley, London

The theft that was their nationalisation continues to rob us daily. This must end.

Richard Keel, Glasgow

Bring back British Rail and create a (North-South) Leeds metro line. Also no to HS2.

Reece Churm, Leeds

We need a re-unified national railway which is run for the people. We need to get rid of privatisation.

Patricia O’Donnell, Harrogate

Given the fact that there is practically no room for competition on the tracks, a few companies hold a monopoly and are profiteering because of that.

Benjamin Jude, Southampton

The rail industry needs to be run safely for all and not for profit by the few.

Ian Smith, Leeds

The East Coast line proves that public ownership results in better service than private profit-driven service. Government doesn’t want to hear this though.

Jay Cannings, Lewes

There is such a thing as society, you silly arse.

Darren Smith, London

If there is profit to be made, let it be made by and for the masses, not for a few bloated shareholders.

Jessica Barfield, York

The current service is impossible for elderly or disabled. And for fully able bodied and mind. All British Rail ever did wrong was limp lettuce in the sandwiches.

Alison Affleck, Stroud

Sort it out.

Karl Roome, Leeds

Transport, like healthcare and education, is something all our people require to succeed in life. Privatisation has disadvantaged certain regions for too long now.

Courtenay Turner

When it comes to public transport, the green measures the government boasts about are belied when rail companies can increase their fares at will.

James