The sell-off of BR was a Tory travesty.

Phil Ellery, Long Stratton

I’m sick and tired of the Great British Rail-fair robbery.

Andrew Clark, Newton Abbot

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

We have such a poor service for the ridiculous price we pay. If something is a national service, it should not be private. It’s as simple as that.

David Netherwood

I’m sick of watching city spivs using the rail system as a method of making easy money off our backs.

Cliff Roe, Winsford

The sooner, the better.

Christian Decle, London

I’m tired of paying a fortune for 20 minute journeys in trains packed like sardine cans. The railways need government investment.

Nicholas Stewart, Clydebank

Amber Rudd is trying to kill our local rail route to implement another even more corrupt, private, expensive disservice in order to kill our town.

Em Law, Hastings

The notion of privatisation as a beneficial process is ridiculous. The removal of BR has left a fragmented system where shareholder profit is put before public good.

Charles Howarth, Altrincham

Everyone realises privatisation was a mistake. They just need to nudge back to British Rail.

Jane Wallace, Norwich

Prices are disgusting nowadays, even with my Railcard. Southern Rail are selfish and don’t care about their customers.

Jessica Oliver, Bognor Regis

Privatisation isn’t working. It’s costing us far more now than it did before for a worse service.

Robert Bapty, Leeds

Profits for the people.

Trevor Neat, Kenilworth

Public transport, publicly owned.

Shaun Rogan, Enfield

BR got a quarter of the subsidy of the private companies and did a better job.

William Hughes, Rugby

We should be supporting our rail network not other ones in Europe.

Kevin Spice, Maidstone

Privatisation was a terrible failure for commuters and a great win for greedy investors.

Steve Andrews, Lincoln

BR cost taxpayers about a third of what the privatised railway does now and was cheaper for passengers too. Nationalise franchises when they expire for greater efficiency.

David Sterratt, Edinburgh

Why should we pay subsidies to these companies in order that they can make a profit?

Roy Whittles, Huddersfield

Privatisation has given us a disjointed service that only benefits shareholders. If anyone can make the railways pay, so can the government.

Ali Joy, Leeds

For the people.

Kerry Pickett, Brighton

The current service is terrible at best and getting progressively worse. The only conclusion can be that sufficient investment is not being made. EU outperforms UK.

Adrian Uden, London

I don’t use the train very often but when I do, travelling from West Wales is calamitous at best. Re-nationalisation is a total no-brainer.

Natasha Thomas, Haverfordwest

For the good of the planet, for the good for us. Transport is a necessity, and not for private profit.

Phillip Quarry, Gloucester

We urgently need to bring back a nationalised network to run our railways. We need to cut the private companies and their greed-orientated objectives.

Nicholas Ghost, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Re-nationalising our railways is the most cost-effective and operationally efficient thing to do. Private monopolies only work for the shareholders – not the customers.

Martin Davison, Chesterfield

The ownership of the railways should never have been separated. The railway experts said it would not work and it doesn’t.

Sonia Gray-Clough, Harrogate

Fair prices from a fair company. Bring back British Rail.

Lisa Potter, Nuneaton

I am old enough to know how good our rail network was when it was a public service and a critical part of our infrastructure. It’s about time we returned to that ethos.

G Hanham, Berwick-upon Tweed

I pay for a cheaper train even though it stops at a further station than the place I need to go to. Logic.

Saneet Bhella, Leeds