Alan Araujo, Rio De JaneiroI wish British Rail will be revived by 2023.
Joel Metcalf, EpsomNo more bad services and high prices.
Peter Marsh, MiddletonPrivatisation has led to a poorer service at a higher cost. Any organisation working for private profit is not working for either their customers or employees.
Matthew Griffin, GillinghamI’m fed up with high prices, illogical fares and poor, unprofessional service.
Paul Jeffries, KentSoutheastern to go.
Mal Kempsell, LiverpoolSNCF in France seems to work well as does DB in Germany. From home to university in Kent I go through five different companies which are never in sync.
Roger Sternad, DoncasterRailways should be a social service, not a money making one. Profit making has benefit in some limited situations. It is not a one-size-fits-all miracle cure.
Debbie Waldon, BrightonIf we’d subsidised BR the way we subsidise the private companies it would have been the best service in the world.
Paul Ransom, LewesGood idea.
Justin Griffiths, GosfieldPut an end to greedy private companies fleecing passengers for profits.
Sean Walker, Glasgow20 years of failure and prices are the most expensive in Europe, to line the pockets of greedy fat cats. No more. Let’s run this for the people by the people to benefit all.
Dorothy Nelson, St AustellRe-instate simple fare structures, with one price wherever you buy. The thought of a public service run for the public should not be a revolutionary concept.
Douglas Jerry, CramlingtonRe-nationalisation is the best way to solve the problem of soaring rail prices and poor service levels. Remove the profit-orientated approach and provide a superb service.
Nicola Mortimer-Stokes, CheltenhamRailways and all essential services need to be run as public services which are much, much more trusted than big business. We have bad banks, and profiteering water companies too.
Clare Holdstock, LondonNo privatisation.
Martin Percy, WellingboroughThere is only one way to run an efficient railway – not-for-profit and with close government control.
Raymond Anderson, SnodlandMore jobs, not profit.
Aaron M, East SussexThe railways were nationalised for a reason by the Attlee government in 1948.
Antoinette Sym, LondonAll essentials, transport, education, health and energy, should be nationally-owned concerns.
Keith Bryant, SandownLet’s bring to an end the privatised fiasco that provides the worst service for the highest fares in Europe.
Nathan Manthorp, HarrowThe franchising experiment has failed.
Richard Stakes, ScunthorpeTime to restore a national rail network. Privatisation has failed.
Philip Macdermott, LondonWe should get value for money and not pour funds into the fat cats’ pockets.
Nicholas Rowe, Southend-on-SeaPeople before profit.!
Gill Cuthbertson, BangorThe system is not fair. Different subsidies or hike-ups in different regions. It needs intelligent organising.
Teresa Smith, RoystonOverpriced fares, overcrowded and late trains. When FCC franchise runs out in 2014 the route should be taken back into public ownership. Put passengers before profits.
William Tyler, Hebden BridgeThis is next to an outrage.
Brian Braithwaite, BrightonSitting down with my grandad talking about the railways, makes me think of a bygone era. And I want to help bring that back.
B J Gibbons, SouthamptonThe subsidies to the privatised companies are going into shareholders’ pockets. We need a properly integrated service. Only BR can do this.
Stephen Goulden, SheffieldThe current shambles is a rip-off too far. They wouldn’t stand for it anywhere else in the EC – why should we?