Bring back British Rail and reverse Beeching!

Christopher Brown, Leeds

Bring it back.

Harrold Nosk

Keep staff at small stations. Ticket machines aren’t enough.

Helen Scott, Downham Market

It’s time all public services returned to being just that, not private profit-making enterprises.

Sarah Patton, Haslemere

Fair fares if it were BR.

Carol Whiting, Northampton

I’m fed up with rich bosses. Let the people have the railways back.

Martin Rayfield, Preston

Bring back British Rail, so that we can try to make rail travel what it once was.

Julia Vango, Shepperton

The British rail system must now be the shoddiest in Europe, and the most expensive. Of course it’s largely in national ownership – it’s just not our nation that owns it.

Aidan Semmens, Woodbridge

The current service is terrible, unreliable and expensive!

Justin Hill, Chester

Rail transport is crucial infrastructure for a greener environment and should be a basic responsibility of the state, for the benefit of people, not private profit.

Anna Pollert, Leamington Spa

Public transport should be a public service not a profit driven business.

Robert Bunday, Brighton

For a better rail service.

Pietro Halle, London

BBBR Now. Stop the waste of money going to shareholders and out of the railway industry.

Steven Parkes, Glasgow

I’m behind this 100%.

Nick Lawn, Derby

GNER was the most efficient service in the country when back in public hands, which says it all. Privately owned means profit before investment.

Michael Barlow, Durham

The public are sheep drowning in apathy. They have no idea the NHS is being sold off piece by piece under our noses. But I support and inform wherever I can.

Paul Harrison, Manchester

Now would be a good time to re-nationalise British Rail.

Jeremy Tothill, Oldbury

All this cheap tickets marketing spin is an illusion.

Rob Fleay, Derbyshire

Privatisation has been a complete and expensive shambles. Bring back British Railways.

Fred Manning, Maidstone

Having experienced the shambles of Southern and the marginally better Arriva Trains Wales services it is high time they were done away with and re-nationalised.

Gordon Leach, Portslade

How come you can privatise and then bail out with public money if it goes wrong?

Sally Grossett, York

I’m labour through and through and would love to see some of the worst things Maggie Thatcher did to this country overturned.

Jonathan Waterhouse, Rotherham

After all the things sold off by previous governments, it is time to bring these back into public ownership. I am tired of seeing all the profits going to overseas people.

Kenneth Peachey, Nottingham

Incompetent politicians have turned a public service into a public liability.

Mike Macsorley, Bargoed

Is it true that we subsidise German rail fares.

David Dickson, Nelson

Over the last year I’ve been unable to take the train when I’ve needed to due to cancellation, strikes and malfunctions. It’s insanely expensive too.

Thomas Butler, Horsham

It just simplifies everything if all utilities are in public ownership.

Catherine Charman, Croydon

Bring back old colours onto trains please.

Jonny Pritchard, Tonbridge

I’m old enough to remember BR. While it needed investment it was in so many respects better than the confusion of current arrangements. Re-nationalise, rationalise.

Marilyn Holloway, Leighton Buzzard

I’m so sick of spending an increasingly vast amount of my wages on trains. Freedom of movement is a basic right.

Barney Cox, London