Michael Johnson, GuisboroughCan we have the power and water companies back as well please? They were privatised without our permission and are ripping us off also.
Lindsey March, Kings LangleyIn Italy. 9 euros gives me 5 hours of clean, modern, punctual rail travel. It is essential that we give people an affordable alternative to car travel to save the planet.
Peter Hammerton, SheffieldBritish Rail – more efficient, more cost effective, no profiteering.
Keith Knutton, HolmfirthPrivatisation equals backhanders.
Jennifer Gray, SelbyI travelled with British Rail for many years and it was always good value and the best service. They should have left British Rail alone.
John Couzin, GlasgowAll essential services should be non-profit. Travel is an essential service and should belong to the people.
Oliver Heathcote, IpswichBritish Rail may have had its problems but nothing like the expensive muddle bequeathed to us by the Major government.
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.
Robet Kearney, IpswichWe need an integrated network again not the disorganised state of a multitude of companies and complex ticketing like the state of the railways prior to nationalisation.
Malcolm Lanfear, GloucesterBring back British Railways, so we in Gloucester can have a proper train service again, like Cardiff to Newcastle and Swansea to Leeds.
Nick Chamberlin, StockportThe privatised railways in Britain are a joke. They are unaffordable, dirty, poor quality. Take them back into public ownership
Harvey Upton, ElyIts high time we reversed the criminal corrupt theft of public assets (aka privatisation) by Tory criminal elites and their corporate funders.
Justin Foxall, Leighton BuzzardMust stop these companies ripping-off the British public and government. Appalling, expensive service. Embarrassing the UK.
Alan Templeton, EdinburghPrivatisation has been an expensive disaster. The East Coast line is performing very well in public hands.
Dorothy Braithwaite, BlackburnGive us back the good old days.
Stephen Reilly, Ashton-under-LyneBring British Rail back into the hands of the people who rightfully own it.
Elaine Musker, King’s LynnIt’s a ludicrous system of ticket-pricing. It’s £10 cheaper for a return to Dartford than it is to London from King’s Lynn even though that is via London.
Darren McNiven, WorthingI travel by train a lot and it is very expensive now, I can remember the early ’90s train prices were fair. I think we should bring back British Rail.
Dan Edwards, LondonThe privatisation of public services was and is the most short-sighted planning possible. Bring them back and put the profits back into society, not private pockets.
Andy McDougall, HitchinTime to end this ridiculously wasteful and expensive experiment.
David Pinder, RotherhamThe current private-run rail system is absurd and makes no sense. Let’s bring railways back into one public company.
Terri HendersonWe, the tax payer, bought and paid for the trains and tracks. It was never the government’s to sell. We want it back.
Arthur Bostrom, ManchesterI look for joined-up thinking on the railways where trains with enough seats for all can be achieved once more. With privatisation there’s no incentive.
Mike Yorke, MorpethThe rail infrastructure of this country should never have been allowed to fall into private hands.
Julie Sinclair, NottinghamHoorah and about time. Stop privatisation and greedy, profit-hungry shareholders and re-nationalise everything again.
Stephen Newberry, HoveI think that a country’s public transport is a reflection of what the powers that be think of their citizenry.
Andy Beech, CaerphillyLet’s get back to the days when it worked.
Paula Du Luc, RedhillWe need to stop governments selling off our British services to other countries. Make our railways British again.
Niall McCrohan, LondonIt disgusts me to see that passengers across the country pay so much more for a service which is so much worse than other, state-owned European providers.
Ed Jasion, LondonBring back British rail. Stop robbing the British public.