Too expensive, not enough infrastructure investment, too much is paid in subsidies to companies who don’t provide a good service. Re-nationalise the railways.

Boyd Fletcher, Basildon

I’m incredibly fed up with paying over the odds for a service I rely on that is cancelled/delayed the majority of the time, with little warning.

Lucy Sherston, Brighton

Normal rail is quite honestly awful. Bringing back British Rail would be great, so yeah, signing this.

Bryn Thomas, Truro

Outrageous rises in fares every year – to pay shareholders – make rail travel impossible for many people. The most expensive fares in Europe, if not the world.

Maggie Corder, York

Former BR employee seeks re-nationalised network for constructive relationship.

Phil Clarke, Nuneaton

I’m sick and tired of the greed.

Katie Harnett, London

Bring back our low fare railways God Save British Rail.

Norman Clegg, Blackpool

Our Railways must be brought back into one centralised state-run concern but not hampered by meddling civil servants in Department of Transport which helped bring down BR.

Rodney Cooper, Lochaber

We deserve a National Rail Service.

Jean Hall, Derbyshire

The current set-up is a farce, over-priced, difficult to use and set up only for the benefit of the shareholders.

Neil Cameron-Rollo, Clare

Poor people can’t afford to travel. Sort this mess out.

Alex Pieroni, London

The East Coast line has shown the private failures how to make a profit.

Terry Thompson, Newark

Do this now before a state-run foreign company takes over or broken up and sold to TOCs.

Chris Henry, Gloucester

It is a nonsense that a so-called First World country does not have a public train network.

Mike Campbell, Salisbury

Privatisation has channelled public funds into private hands and left us with one of the most expensive and least efficient railways. We must renationalise now.

William Quick, Bristol

What doesn’t work doesn’t work no matter how we might will or wish it too.

Martin Forster, Washington

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Since moving back into public ownership the East Coast line is thriving once more. Nothing more needs saying really.

Harry Bird, Sheffield

Privatisation is failing. Bring back British Rail.

Bobby Bowden, St Helens

Private monopolies don’t work. There is only one rail network and there should be one public organisation running it.

Michael Gale, London

We had a main line from the 1880s to 2003. Now we go to Preston to get to London.

Frank Harvey, Blackpool

I started with BR just before all the fat cats got fatter with privatisation. The railway loses a fortune on all the contractors, middle men etc.

Stewart Brown, Glasgow

Privatisation has been a total mess, providing a second class service and extortionate fares.

Lewys Hall, Nottingham

Extortion all for profits and no consideration for the customer.

Trevor Castle, Stevenage

It is totally ludicrous that taxpayers fund the profits of the privatised rail system. We are not a charity for the rich.

Susanna Farley, New Cross

Privatisation has been nothing short of a disaster. Abolish the Treasury now!

Ryan Watson, Scunthorpe

Train services need to be better in every way so why not re-nationalise?

Jack McRobbie, Ipswich

Re-nationalising the railways is the only way to make it for the people not just for private profit.

Helen Morton, London

I love traveling by train but now, even with my rail card, it is becoming too expensive to use the West Coast and yet the fares still keep rising.

Nick Prince, Staffordshire

The East Coast line shows how it should be done.

David Graham, West Yorkshire