Martyn Mitchell, WellingtonI’m fed up with the fees we have to pay to get around a country this small! £50(with railcard) for a London return! The profit that the private companies make is scandalous!
Daniel Church, CambridgeEnough.
Dafydd Waters, BristolThe rails are subsidised and way too expensive. It’s the worst of both worlds. Give me back my railways.
Andrew Taylor, OxfordPrivatisation makes no sense. Money from tickets should pay for a better service, not to pay shareholders (and also to subsidise German rail users’ fares.)
Tim Brown, LeedsEnough of high priced and shoddy services for the traveller.
David Sherwood, NorthwichPrivatisation has failed, tax payers pay more subsidies to give private companies more profit.
Will Wilkie, BridlingtonIt shouldn’t cost the same as a flight to another country to travel from Kings Cross to Edinburgh. Private companies worked in the past, but not in the modern era.
Jon Keen, HullIf we don’t own it, we can’t improve it.
Charlotte Moncrieff, BrightonThe last train journey I made was a nightmare and the toilets were broken and/or filthy.
David Tipp, LondonBetter commuter trains to the south coast
Cliff Blackwell, IlfordAs a serving freight train driver, I see every day the enormous amount of problems with the running of the system. We need one organisation to run it – British Rail.
Daniel Dowsing, BangorI want a public train service I can afford to use.
Pat Boon, BirstallI long to see the railways return to public ownership and not run for private profit but as a public service.
Rex Holt, BradfordI just totally agree with what you say.
Su Maddock, TorbaySu Maddock is Labour PPC for Torbay. We need more investment in the railways in the Southwest – i.e. an additional line to Plymouth.
Ade Cross, WokinghamRun trains for the people.
Michael McPate, MansfieldIt should never have been privatised in the first place. People before profit. Bring back steam. Think of the jobs created within the coal industry and reopen the pits.
Neil Chamberlain, BlackwoodBring back British Rail.
Stephen Clark, CumbernauldPut the money where it belongs, back into the railways, to enhance them and bring down the cost for the people that use them.
Ralph Dyson, DoncasterUnity is strength.
Lynn Bates, CarlisleYes Ed, be bold and re-nationalise the railways. Also ban fracking while you’re about it.
Janine Walker, FarnboroughI worked for the railways between 1991 and 1998. As soon as BR was disbanded in 1994 I saw things get worse for passengers and employees alike.
Elisabeth Kiener, Reepham, NorfolkRailways are too important to remain in private ownership.
Jacob Colclough, Stoke-on-TrentThere was more efficient running of trains back then and there were proper locomotives.
Patrick Hulme, AvonI am of the generation that remembers British Rail. It was not perfect, but during the Conservative years it was led by politicians who severely starved it of investment.
Aaron Williams, HastingsIt’s time to have services publicly owned again, starting with the national rail.
Alyson Rennie, NottinghamI moved to Nottingham in 1996 and soon got a job with a company that dealt with British Rail. Soon after that year we had then to deal with all the private companies.
Terry Davies, TelfordPassengers not profit, just as it should be patients and not profit in the NHS. Give us back our assets.
Stan Fay, LondonIt only makes sense, operate like DB and see success like East Coast and London Overground, bringing in huge sums if money.