We need affordable, interconnected, environmentally friendly rail services.

Juliet Wilson, Edinburgh

Bring back British Rail and get rid of this rail madness we now suffer from – crap service and high fares.

Robert Parker, Sandhurst

Public ownership is in the people’s best interest to have a system that everyone can depend on.

Joe Meredith, Risca

We need trains so that people can get out and about and get to work.

Sandra Redden, Northampton

About ticket pricing. I had to tell USA tourists why I had a saver return ticket with seat (£12) to London & they paid £92+ each to stand.

Margaret Hunt

We are demanding a re-unified national network run for people not profit.

Audrey Frumento, Ipswich

I support you fully against this greed and want the link broken between private corporations and ministerial back-scratching.

James

First of all I’m really sick and tired of this privatisation as it is all about making profit, cramming in as many seats as possible and foreign-made trains.

Jason Leyton, London

Good luck to the campaign.

James Greenhalgh, Huddersfield

Britain saw the birth of railways, but since privatisation the system has steadily declined and fallen well behind other countries. It’s in the public interest to improve.

Chris Poulton, London

It’s time to end the culture of private profits but socialised losses and subsidies.

Ashwin Vyas, Bingley

The system is not fair. Different subsidies or hike-ups in different regions. It needs intelligent organising.

Gill Cuthbertson, Bangor

I fully support the re-nationalisation of all public services. The clue as to where ownership should be is in the description. Germany and France recognise this.

Richard Roberts, Huntingdon

I frequently travel by train and have witnessed standards and services reduce as prices increase. The trains should be run as a not-for-profit service for everyone.

Dawn Woolley, Cardiff

Plough the income back into the nationalised railways – not into private profiteers’ pockets.

Barry Freeman, Shaftesbury

British Rail did not ‘belong’ to the government. They sold something they did not own. That is robbery – selling something that ‘fell off the back of a lorry’.

Yvonne Baker, Stockport

Bring back the railways where they belong.

Mick Dawber, Nottingham

We are paying for it anyway so let’s have it back.

Mark Westendorp, Lyme Regis

Privatisation has been shown not to work time and time again. We want a service free from the shackles of profit-making for the shareholders.

Olaya De La Iglesia, Norwich

A re-unified national railway network is fair, sensible and forward-looking.

John Littlefair, Brough

The current system is complicated, no matter how hard it is tried to be portrayed as simplified for our benefit. There are far too many ways to book and I feel cheated.

Graham Towler, Northampton

It would be so easy not to renew the franchises as they fall due. The East Coast main line is a success under state control.

Stephen Wischhusen, Lewes

Oh what a circus, a Major catastrophe. At a higher price than ever and no competition for some areas. Is that fair? I think not! BBBR fast.

Robert Clark, Poole

It would be in the British peoples’ interest to have it back as British Rail. The Government should never have sold it off as it was one of the citizens’ properties.

Christine Barratt-Phelps, Stalybridge

I’d like to see the railway in public ownership again – in Germany as well as in the UK.

Marko Lauten, H

Privatisation of the railways created the TOCs (Train operators) and ROSCOs (Train leasing companies) all wanting a share of the subsidies. How can it not cost more?

Louis Stephenson, Fareham

Re-nationalise it now – the sooner the better.

Joe Tait, Southampton

Bring back a national public transport system that is for the people and not for private profit.

James Gosney, Wedmore

Bring back British Rail.

Ashley Sinani, London

It costs a fortune to get around by rail and you can only go to specific places. It’s meant to be cheaper but costs more than me getting around in my car including taxes.

Spencer Guest, Wakefield