Anne Brodie, CowesAs an ex-commuter I can vouch for the outrageously bad state of trains and rail services, and the extortionate fares. We need change.
Amelia AsburyWe have tried both public and private ownership of the rail network and it is obvious that it works better as a public institution.
Robin Wilde, KegworthTrains are the only way I’ll be able to see my girlfriend for the next three years – but I’d rather not pay through the nose.
Laurence Poole, ClevedonWe need a cheaper, fairer railway system for all. The social impact of the railways should be priority and more branch lines should be reopened.
Elizabeth Matter, NottinghamTrains have been private most of my life – it’s time for a change.
James Sinclair, JerseyIt costs more in subsidies now. Your logo is facing the wrong way. I was a BR man for 17 years.
Stuart Miller, LondonYou are doing God’s work.
Neil Bainbridge, YorkI remember when it was one railway and we worked together, not fighting each other, who takes delays and who pays.
Margaret Stritzel, DerbyI have many happy memories of travelling by train with my father as a child. I would love to see the return of British Rail.
Noelle Berney, Newcastle-upon-TyneWhy must everything British be privatised or sold to other nations?
Richard Birkett, CambridgeSo important.
Luke Wolton, CirencesterBring them back and bring back trains to Cirencester.
Kathrine Barlow, LondonMonthly travel prices are not value for money.
Jane Lennie, ShepshedI never understood why taxpayers pay private rail operators to take passengers’ money, with no gain to the taxpayer.
Premkumar Ramayen, WokingThe current service is awful and always rising the cost even when inflation is nullified. All they care about is profit and filling up the shareholders’ pockets.
Romney Johnstone, AnstrutherBritish Rail proved it could run an efficient and cost-effective service in the run up to privatisation. It should never have been sold off.
Paul Miller, IlkestonGet this cash cow for the rich and greedy back to the people who use it.
Evan Wyatt, OxfordWe need the best days of our rails back. Privatisation has caused such a decline of our railway system, it’s time to nationalise them again.
Christopher Thomson, ChelmsfordThe prices are beyond a joke. An end to privatised railway services must come.
Kelvin Smith, BedfordOver the last 4 decades that I have borne witness to, privatisation has clearly failed. We need to stop bored billionaires using us as their Monopoly board.
Robert Hampson, NorthallertonI would use the train more if the fares were cheaper.
Charles Howarth, AltrinchamThe 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.
Rick LongRe-nationalisation is overdue and would cost nothing. It’s time to end the disastrous experiment with our essential public service.
John Lee, TauntonRailways are an essential part of an integrated transport system and should be owned and run by the country, for the country.
James Gannon, ManchesterGive it back to the people.
Mary Wolf, CroydonRail for public service not for private profit, please.
Kitty Schofield, StockportThe rail network should be run on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of all. There is too much money being made by private companies out of something that’s a necessity.
John Homer, Newcastle-upon-TyneThe privatisation of British Rail was supposed to benefit the customer. What a laugh. In fact, the new owners are laughing all their way to the bank. Re-nationalise.
Lynda Lorenzo, Sutton-on-SeaA long-time commuter in my youth, now living where there is no rail service – but strongly believe rail network should all be in public ownership.
Suzie Litton-Wood, DerbyIt would be great if it actually happened, but unlikely I fear with this Tory-led government.