At present no improvement in service or train conditions but yearly prices increase.

Rich Brassett, Sawbridgeworth

Well how bad is it now? Expensive, industrial action, we can’t get to Blackpool from West Yorks. Lines that need opening are stopped by incompetent managers.

John Alan Ramsden, Cleckheaton

We have had enough. Fix this now!

Danielle O’Hara, Lancashire

We should re-nationalise not only British Rail but the Post Office, the Electricity and Gas companies and London Transport etc.

Sue Brown, Bishops Stortford

If British Railways had received subsidies equivalent to those now received by the Train Operating Companies, we would still have the finest railway system in the world.

Alan Tingle

Cut fares not staff.

Michael Schouten, Brighton

Bring back BR. Great stuff.

James Goddard, London

Although I like the different companies and versatility in trains, private companies vary way too much in quality of service from one another and everything is confusing.

Jahmin Balde, Ipswich & Lowestoft

Bring back British Rail.

Debra Norgate, Dewsbury

BR seems to have run best when it was up for sale and had to prove itself before privatisation. If East Coast can do it, then I’m sure the whole network can too.

Malcolm Hunt, London

If the private sector wants it, it’s because it makes them money, and know the government will bail them out if it loses. The state should make the profit if it takes the risk.

Lorraine Winson, Chesterfield

I’m sick of terrible train services and extortionate pricing.

Tiffany Francis, Streatham

Nationalise now.

Stephen Peel, Redcar

Train operators don’t give a toss about the service they offer, their customers or value for money.

Paul Reid, Liverpool

It’s unlikely to happen, but good luck anyway.

James Fibbens, London

I totally agree with you. Bring back British Rail and dismantle Southern Railway. I am a regular commuter on the West Coast way and it is a disgraceful line.

Daniel De Conceicao Silva, Worthing

it was the worst thing this country did, getting rid of British Rail.

Wayne Parr, Wigan

The current service Luton to London is appalling. It needs to be re-nationalised and run for the benefit of the travelling public and not shareholders.

Simon Groom, Luton

They should never have been de-nationalised. It was nationalised because it didn’t work as a mish-mash of companies.

Tracey Allen

This was a fatuous privatisation driven by greed and ideology (aren’t they all?) not public service and a sense of community.

Dave Crowe, Crediton

DOR have shown with East Coast how it can be done, but despite this the Coalition are dogmatically pursuing more failing privatisations. Unbelievable.

Peter Cowan, Spalding

People before profits.

Nigel Hayes, Kettering

Stop the rip-off!

Spencer Preece, Hereford

Circulate East Coast’s financial figures.

James Stevenson, Hullbridge

The industry is structured for maximum profit and minimum investment for a cartel of unaccountable and untransparent rail companies.

Robert Davis, Lanarkshire

The railways should be placed in the ownership of the public, so that when it becomes profitable the revenue can be re-invested and not stolen by capitalists.

Warren Neill, Todmorden

The best part of the rail service these days is East Coast. Stop the privatisation, learn from the lesson of this publicly owned company.

Simon Aves, Edinburgh

Bring back British Rail!

Moira Gommon, Birkenhead