Dennis Warwick, Burley-in-WharfedaleI am a former porter on BR in 1949-50. I would like the railways back in public ownership.
Nicola Raymond, MaidenheadI want to fight the privateers.
Jesamine Bartlett, Market DraytonAfter spending time living in Norway where the state owns the rail system and you can travel cheaply, I am even more furious at the cost of travel in the UK on rail.
Kaissa TaitIt is cheaper to rent a car for a week than buy tickets from Birmingham to Brighton. We should be encouraging people to use green transport not pricing them out.
Charlotte Godley, SheffieldAs a student living away from home I gave up on the train due to its general shockingly bad service for distances longer than a few hours. For trains the only way is up.
Ashley Roots, FreckenhamTerrible! Buying new trains doesn’t sort punctuality! People don’t care what train they’re on as long as its on time!
Patricia Wilson, MerseysideIt should never have been privatised and now it’s gone to ruin, no money has been spent on it and all has been banked for the owners.
Andy Soulsbury, HastingsStop hiking train fares. Let’s have a national organisation once again.
John Heathcote, LudlowRailways should be in public ownership.
Peter Kevan, ChorleyNot enough carriages and too expensive. Why pay and reserve a seat that someone else sits in?
Craig Morris, NorthamptonThe shambles of railways in this country is a disgrace. We deserve a railway network we can be proud of and the French model shows that national is the way to go.
Paul Simmonds, NorwichI want a British Rail owned by and run for the benefit of employees and the public not private vested interests who value profit above lives.
Shannon Cream, Long Beach, CaliforniaI rode BR Deltics as a child every weekend with my grandmother, from Luton to St. Pancras.
Mel Dickson, HartlepoolIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Christine Laugesen, LeylandI remember British Rail before it was all sold off. It worked well. Since privatisation we’ve returned to the Victorian era. Re-nationalise, now.
Norman Horton, DarlingtonRailways should be run for the good of the people and not exist to line shareholders’ pockets.
Thomas Ashton, NottinghamBring it back. The people’s railway.
Scott Boeser, BristolI love trains.
Nancy Sands, LondonI’m fed up with shareholders getting our hard-earned money, whilst we subsidise the train companies anyway.
Chris Carter, HastingsI travel to London every week and eight times out of ten it’s delayed or cancelled/missed connection.. This needs to change. I’m fed up with the service and it shouldn’t be the case.
Tim Shields, ChorleyIt’s about time we gave power over train prices back to the people and took the initiative to have more state-owned commodities.
Ant Veal, TeignmouthThis should be run for the people and not for profit.
Jack Dickinson, PenzanceFull communism.
Andrew Palmer, Stockton-on-TeesAll natural monopolies should be run in the national interest as public services. Our transport infrastructure is vital to the national economy.
Adrian Cross, BlackburnI agree that British Rail should be re-nationalised.
Suzy Davies, CrawleyBoth of my grandfathers were steam engine drivers. They would be incensed to see the profiteering free-for-all of today’s railways. Re-nationalise now.
Joe Meredith, RiscaPublic ownership is in the people’s best interest to have a system that everyone can depend on.
Christian Decle, LondonThe sooner, the better.
Mander Semmens, IslingtonWe are losing bits or England (London) every year.
Alan Brown, HullBR wasn’t perfect but it did usually have sufficient carriages to fulfil a generally decent service. The TOCs claim rail growth is due to their efforts. It’s not.