N P Bradley, DevonBritish Rail was cheaper.
Guy M, Great MissendenTrain prices are a rip-off. It takes me working two days to pay off a week’s worth of train travel to London and parking. What an absolute joke.
Ian Grainger, LondonRe-nationalise our railways to ensure a publicly run and accountable service. It’s time to end the fares rip off.
John Cupis, BathFor too long the British public have been misled on this subject. Rail privatisation is a massive lie by government.
Andrew Smith, WhitchurchLet’s not forget that at Hatfield and Potters Bar people paid with their lives for this privatisation madness. BBBR.
J B Barrington, YorkAll the railways should be re-nationalised. There should never be a profit made from a public service.
Cyril Rhodes, SheffieldIt should not have been done in the first place.
Julia Burns, CardiffThings were so much better under BR.
Imrul Hossain, WatfordWe should never have sold our public transport to the private sector. It was the worst idea by any government. Be smart and bring it back.
Paul Hill, ColchesterThatcher’s scum children will one day be shown by the people of this country that we come before their all-engrossing profits, which only benefit them and not us.
Caroline McArthur, HuntingdonThe present pricing system with all the different companies is far too complicated and unfair.
Stephen Howlett, SheffieldGet this country back on the rails.
Tim Boxley, GraffhamIt can’t come soon enough.
Roy Fryer, NewarkI frequently use the East Coast line which is in public ownership and is an excellent service. We want more of the same.
Anthony Turtle, HastingsWe need a rail service that provides service – not expecting a wheelchair user to push herself onto a platform up a slope.
Anthony Levchenko-Scott, Palmerston NorthI want BR back.
Martyn McCarthy, LondonFor a better Britain.
Jonathan Elliott, WhitstableThe public are filling the pockets of rich shareholders and the CEOs of the private companies involved plus paying three times the amount BR got in funding from the public.
Peter Wiltsher, Stratford-upon-AvonI think the public not-for-profit company which ran the East Coast line should have been allowed to bid when the contract came up for renewal.
Oliver Jarrett, LondonI’m fed up with prices, service and awful names and symbols.
Bruce Williams, BarmouthAs an ex BR employee it makes a world of sense, as passengers would benefit over and over again.
Lance Dyer, TruroHere in Cornwall our trains to Paddington are, bar one, slower than in British Rail days – and the same HS125s in use!
Veronica Piekosz, NorthallertonIt works for East Coast, don’t you know? The only network to actually pay back and now they want to re-privatise it.
Peter Forster, HaltwhistleThis has to be done. No more big profits from robbing the people who pay Fares.
Ross Halliwell, ManchesterPrivatisation has ruined this country. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Robert Bayley, ElyI’m tired of the privatisation mantra. The market does not create efficiency or keep prices in check. Re-nationalise rail now.
Graham Symms, BroughtonThe railways, like so many other things, should be run for the benefit of all the citizens of this country and not to make already rich people even richer.
Richard Norris, HullFor too long the profits of these private companies have been fed back into the pockets of shareholders at the expense of the British public.
Christine Rogers, HastingsWhy should taxpayers subsidise these private companies in order for their shareholders to gain. Take them back now.
Derek Gould, OrpingtonI do not believe in privatisation.