Jim C C Jones, Thessaloniki, GreeceIt was wonderful in the past and a nightmare these last years when we use the rail.
Tyler Brace, PeterboroughI want to bring back BR because the railways should be known as one and, as a trainspotter, it would be easier to use the railway.
Sue Kirk, CaernarfonIt’s long overdue.
Jane Herbert, ChelmsfordIt should never have been privatised. We need transport that is cheap and reliable so that people can be less reliant on their cars.
David McCormack, HinckleyPrivatisation brings too many fat cast and fewer jobs.
Brenda Smith, LondonI’m fed up with having to get a train 30 minutes earlier than I should have to just to get to work on time.
Sylvia Swann, ScarboroughWe need a reliable economic system to take freight off the roads and provide affordable travel for passengers.
Andrew Gammage, SkegnessOur trains are a joke – dirty, smelly, uncomfortable and noisy. The first train on a Sunday is 12.30, so can’t get anywhere in time to get back.
Bill Tymms, LeedsI support the idea of keeping railways in public ownership. Too much profit is taken out by shareholders and not kept in the rail industry for future improvements.
R E Kenner, OxfordInvestment by central government for a national asset to enhance the infrastructure is the best way out of this mess.
Huw Jones, FavershamReverse the Tory money-grabbing agenda.
Jeremy Evans, BrightonI love nationalised trains.
Hannah Straw, NottinghamTrain travel is now prohibitively expensive. Smaller stations are not serviced, meaning that only wealthy people who live in well-connected places can use it.
Dean Bell, Retfordit is time to take our core industries away from the thieves and fat cats and restore them to the public sector. People before profits. Off with their heads.
Stella Haynes, Market HarboroughIt, by rights, belongs to us anyway and was stolen from us.
Lindsay Gutteridge, ChesterfieldPrivatisation has not improved efficiency, cost, or performance. It has in fact made all these things worse and made life unnecessarily complicated
Brian Garvey, GooleBritish Rail would simplify things and profits would go back into infrastructure rather than into fat cats’ pockets.
A W, Manchester£369 Base rate fares? Nothing fair about it.
Brendan McNally, MiddlesbroughBring back British Rail.
David Hornsby, ShipleyRe-nationalise the rail network and put the customer, not profits, first.
Lynne Finn, LondonBritish Rail should never have been privatised in the first place. Let’s get it back and then set to getting the Royal Mail back too.
Matt Hoban, ThirskRailway travel should be a public service/right but it would seem our native rail travel is completely profit-driven, which is criminal.
Denise Elliott, North ShieldsThere are some things which should never be in private hands. Indeed it is difficult to think of anything which can be entrusted to the private sector.
Neil Rhoden, StromnessPrivatisation has been a total disaster, taking the public for a ride in quite the wrong way.
Damian Roberts, WrexhamBring back cheaper fares.
Thomas Sutton, DerbyshireI had to get the train down to London the other day and it cost well over £100. Crazy! Why would anybody take the train given a choice?
Leslie Anderson, LeedsThe only ethical way to run any public transport system is for the public’s benefit and not shareholders’.
Jaki Spencer, PontefractKeep private hands off our rail network. I do not want private companies paying shareholders at the expense of services and increased rail fares.
Vern Williams, BrightonI agree.
Simon Rawlins, SheffieldNot only should the rail network be publicly-owned and accountable, but fares should be decided by democratically elected committees of workers.