How has rail got so bad and so expensive? Turn it into just one company and bring back British Rail.

Joshua Tyler, Rotherham

good luck with Your campaign

Adam Hiley, Upminster

If even ‘Red Ed’ couldn’t be persuaded to re-nationalise the railways then it doesn’t look too hopeful – but good luck anyway.

John Hicks, Sunbury-on-Thames

Disgusting that foreign companies are shortlisted to run Welsh trains following Brexit. Let’s have a British company trading as British Rail.

Liz Humphreys, Oswestry

We need a joined up service and not a cartel of lots of different companies offering us the same tickets and prices.

Jean Coates, Harrogate

I remember old Beeching, the beginning of the demise of the British Rail network, and it’s even worse now.

Malcolm Halliday, Exeter

I’m sick of spending 4-10 hours on coaches to visit family because of ridiculous rail prices.

Eve Tait, Leicester

British rail services are getting more expensive and worse and we are being taken for a ride (no pun intended) It must stop.

Charlotte O’Neill, London

Public Sector rail travel must be reintroduced.

Anne Somers, Mirfield

I am for an efficient, punctual publicly-run rail service, rather than the monopolies of private service providers we currently have, charging inflated prices.

Andy Broadey, Manchester

The banks and government are screwing us out of every last penny on every level.

Ian Greenhalgh, Edinburgh

Monthly travel prices are not value for money.

Kathrine Barlow, London

Put an end to greedy private companies fleecing passengers for profits.

Justin Griffiths, Gosfield

Bring it back.

John Price, Liverpool

Parliament has always meddled incompetently with railways.

Robert Hendry, Rugby

I’m delighted to sign this petition. Thanks to the previous Labour government, we still had our own British Rail North East company until now.

Brenda Whatmore, Durham

An embarrassment to our country, and legitimately a large source of much misery in my life.

Sean Cole, Gravesend

I have worked on the railways for over 33 years, first as British Rail when I joined in 1980, and I can honestly say it has not improved in private ownership.

Grahame Wood, Broughton

My annual season ticket costs over £9000, more than my mortgage.

Graham Bridge, Nuneaton

We need a green transport policy which meets the needs of people and business first. Railways cannot be run as a competition. They will only succeed as a strategic resource.

Dean Reeves, Wisbech

East Coast Trains proved that public ownership works. How ridiculous to then sell it.

Gala Middleton, Newark

Progress hasn’t been made with privatisation, just big mistakes like the Virgin franchise. BR was when we had and are going to get real progress.

Jack Plumb, Colchester

Will a mainstream party have common sense enough to adopt this policy? Why are they so scared?

S Read, York

Southern Rail is a disgrace, negatively impacting the economy, businesses and peoples health and lives.

M Atkins, Chichester

Bring back BR.

Ian Crombie, Basingstoke

How can it be that when the Government has all the best possible resources in the country available, it still pretends that it is better to privatise everything?

Rod Stephens, Ware

I’m bored with paying to run Europe’s rail network with the profits from ours.

Andrew Stock, Colchester

I love Virgin who have the west coast franchise. Their service is excellent – trains comfortable and staff outstanding. However, the rest is a mess.

Hazel Mayamba-Kasongo, Chester

The recent move to sell off East Coast Mainline is a betrayal of all the people of this country in favour of one section of it. Disgraceful.

Paul Taylor, Leeds