Regionalised rail has failed the common, everyday and occasional passenger with constantly increasing price hikes! Time to bring back a fairer system and value for money.

Gareth Robinson, Wrexham

If we bring back British Rail we can increase our freight and trade in Britain.

Ewan Green

The service across the Chiltern Railways line has been disintegrating steadily and consistently over many years. The current service shows the results of underinvestment.

Joanne Smalley, Beaconsfield

Bring back BR now for everyone’s sake.

Alan McVitty, Welwyn Garden City

Our rail and utility companies should never have been sold off in the first place.

Dawn Chamberlain, Liskeard

I’m fed up with Northern Rail shoddy carriages.

Dave Shepherdson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Privatisation of the railways has been a disaster. The only people to benefit are shareholders – passengers have been screwed over.

Keith Smith, Hounslow

I’m not disgruntled, but the money that goes into profits for companies that carry little risk could be going into the rail network.

Bob Harrold, Stotfold

Privatisation has been a catalogue of disasters.

Martin Odoni, Salford

Enough is Enough. Stop robbing people and making their lives a misery. All everyone wants is to be able to get to their job at an affordable cost.

Oliver Hickmet, London

Higher prices, poorer services, year on year. How long do they think people will be pissed on like this?

Andrew Wale, Hove

I can’t even afford to visit my friends in Woking, even though it’s such a short journey. These prices are obscene.

Hannah Davies, Basingstoke

Un-privatise is the only way forward from this mess.

Dennis Hart, Manchester

I use the East Coast line. Under the DOR, it gave a glimpse of what a re-nationalised service can do. With Virgin in control prices have rocketed. Privatisation doesn’t work.

Neil Blumfield, Lincoln

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

An efficient reliable customer-orientated rail service plus effective freight transport is what is needed.

Gillian Wolff, Sheffield

Bring it back now.

Anne Keighley, Manchester

The system as it is now is a bloody mess and one big massive rip-off.

Paul Lenihan, London

Re-nationalise British Rail and put passengers before shareholders.

Edward James, London

Put the profit back into government coffers to pay for the NHS.

Julie Dudley, Guildford

The rail privatisation has got to be one of the most outrageous, harmful and impractical of all privatisations.

Martin Bedford, Bournemouth

Why not re-nationalise, take more people off benefits to work in the Industry to, once again, give good customer service, instead of demoralising them with unemployment.

Shirley Coupe, Norwich

I love trains and rail travel but cannot afford to use them under the current capitalist system.

Paula Marley, Sheffield

Public services should be in public hands.

Declan Duggan, Luton

Common sense.

Suzi Hanney, Fareham

It’s the worst value rail system in the world.

Andy Bond, Edinburgh

I have always believed in a nationally-owned rail system which provides a value service and removes road travel misery. Just visit the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin and weep.

Paul Ibbott, Bedford

The first mistake was the Beeching axe. This destroyed the infrastructure which made the re-routing of trains relatively simple.

Alan Carson, Prudhoe

When German state railways are expatriating profits from UK rail passengers, to invest back into more efficient and cheaper rail in Germany, you know we need change.

Thomas Corbett, London

Reunify to bring down the stupidly expensive train fares!

Joseph Harrison, Wolverhampton