Sylvia Coles, NottinghamAll essential services should be nationalised. That’s rail, water, energy, post office, and schools under local authority control.
Dennis Lyons, RayleighThe gas and electric and water companies too.
Mark Bishop, YorkWhat is wrong with a service? Why does everything have to provide a profit to shareholders?
Larry Tetteh, LondonBring back British Rail.
Steve Dalton, BarnsleyAs a person who prefers good service for customers over meaningless profits for shareholders, I’d be happy to see a return to rail travel being publicly owned again.
Nick Chamberlin, StockportThe privatised railways in Britain are a joke. They are unaffordable, dirty, poor quality. Take them back into public ownership
Chris Cunningham, Market HarboroughGovernment greed and hidden agendas appear to be the reason that the rail network was privatised. The unjust fare increases have made little improvement to our commute.
James Riley, MorleyTrain fares have become ridiculously too expensive while at the same time taking finances out of the British infrastructure and investing into networks such as DB.
Pauline Vaughan, KendalI stood up in first class on rail journey from Oxenholme to Manchester. I had to move from standard class as there were so many people I could not breathe. It was unbelievable.
Paul Collinson, ShildonBring it back. Give all of us contractors working away some job security and let us shine to our full potential instead of being stuck as shovel monkeys.
Ken Gibson, TwickenhamCertain services need to be publicly run and the profits shared among the many. Privatisation is a get-even-more-rich-quicker scheme for an undeserving elite.
Denise Scott, Newcastle-upon-TynePublic transportation should be nationalised.
Bruce Wembridge, BristolFar, far too much is worried about making money and lining a few people’s pockets, not improvement in service.
Yvonne Rouse, EastbourneIt would be great to have British Rail back.
Bob Swann, LiverpoolThe myth that public ownership doesn’t work is busted. Private enterprise has let this country’s transport system down in a spectacular way.
Nicholas Blomstrand, LondonProfits no. Investment yes.
Michael Neal, King’s LynnIt should never have left public ownership in the first place.
Donald Purdy, WakefieldIt is supposed to be public transport after all.
Peter Sims, BasingstokeThe buses and trains need to be run as one system with the aim of getting people from anywhere in the country to anywhere else.
Deb Davy, DoncasterWho would have thought such a run-down organisation could be preferred to the farce we have now?
Margaret Stritzel, DerbyI have many happy memories of travelling by train with my father as a child. I would love to see the return of British Rail.
Adam F, NottinghamSolidarity.
Tess Green, BristolThe Green Party wants rail in public ownership and so do I.
Bruce Williams, DyffrynHaving worked for BR as a signalman for 20 years, I have seen our railway system slowly deteriorate into the shambles it is now.
Christopher Gunning, RickmansworthPrivatisation just hasn’t worked. Fares are too high, ticketing too complicated, services inadequate. Please bring British Rail back.
Colette Wright, TorquayWhy can’t we have a rail system as good as many other countries?
William Thompson, Burnham-on-SeaNationalise the railways or lose the next election.
Mark Kavanagh, LeedsWe need to re-establish fair prices for rail travel. Privatisation has simply enabled business greed to hike prices far beyond what is reasonable at the public’s expense.
Julia Burns, CardiffThings were so much better under BR.
Iain Woolnough, South OckendonAs I work for Network Rail I see how it is working on a day-to-day basis and unless we bring it back under British Rail I foresee major problems and major accidents.