Bring back the railways where they belong.

Mick Dawber, Nottingham

Let’s put passengers before shareholders’ dividends

Stephen Clandfield, London

I believe strongly that all public transport, and particularly the rail network, should be nationalised.

Marie Smith, Durham

Time for separate rail networks to re-unite under one flag.

Robin Squelch, Stockport

Time to restore a national rail network. Privatisation has failed.

Richard Stakes, Scunthorpe

Rail privatisation is legalised larceny. Train operators invest little cash but take massive profits. This wasn’t what the Tories promised.

Jon Humphreys

About time, bloody Thatcher.

John Devine, Chippenham

Infrastructure services should be for the national good, not shareholders’.

Graham Lester George, Nottingham

Privatisation equals poor service and higher prices.

Anthony Ryan, Hull

They should be owned by the employees, like John Lewis.

Mark Stokes, Peterborough

It couldn’t be worse than it is now. Where are the bigger trains we were promised 30 years ago? It’s still horrible on our line.

David Williams, Stamford

Bring it on. But remember that Network Rail, supposedly in the public sector, but running wild with taxpayers’ money, is the biggest part of the problem.

Stuart Bell, Redcar

They should never have been privatised in the first place. That was a transfer of wealth from the people of the UK to a few business people with no real returns.

John Edwards, Edinburgh

The present system has de-railed the service, price and commitment. Give it back to the people.

Shirley Kobiela, Falkirk

Prices for train travel have soared through the roof and passengers are penalised financially if they travel at certain times.

Richard Brierley, Derby

I am sick of being ripped off by greedy companies whose only purpose is to maximise profits.

Paul Worsnop, Nottingham

One of the worst government decisions ever made.

Gordon Daunt-Jones, Rochester

High travel costs meant I had to give up a great job I love, instead of returning to work after maternity. Please tell me how the government supports working mums.

Carol Frazer, Haywards Heath

Train prices are a robbery, and the increases just don’t stop. Hugely unaffordable, an hour on the train should cost an hour of minimum wage.

Alexis Parrinder-Nicholls, London

Private rail companies provide services that are over-priced and poorly run. Re-nationalise public transport and run it for people, not profit.

Jake O’Leary, Cheltenham

We deserve a service that suits the public, not the profit-making private. Also to encourage the use of a greener transport system.

Alfred English, Colchester

Let’s have a national railway system that works as an inexpensive and real alternative to car and air travel. It makes sense on all sorts of levels.

Jane Angel, Edinburgh

We want British Rail back.

Ryan Pengelly, Exeter

Return railways into public hands, so that profits can be returned to the railways to improve services rather than the money going to shareholders.

Allen Teare, Bishop Auckland

All public transport networks and systems should be run as not-for-profit, and all should either be re-nationalised or re-regulated whichever it is under.

Andrew Appleyard, Oldham

I would like to see more coaches on for the peak time commuters and more on the long distant ones too.

Lynn Wallace, Denny

Public services should be run for the public good, not private profit.

Harry Keane, Gillingham, Kent

With operators like London Midland and Greater Anglia this is argument enough for nationalisation.

George Smith, Hemel Hempstead

Bring back BR and let’s get rid of these MPs that are ruining this country. Privatisation doesn’t work and never will.

Raymond Batchelor, Shildon

And then we can re-nationalise energy and water.

Carmen Edwards, Wrexham