Alicia Hudson, CreweI am not legally allowed to drive. A journey that would be 40 minutes by car, takes me more than two hours by train.
Alan Bennett, WalsallThe system is a mess. Ticketing practices and pricing make the system very difficult to navigate.
Michael Katchelenga, StanwellThe infrastructure is dilapidated.
Michael Bennett, Berwick-upon-TweedI applaud your efforts, but this can only happen with a socialist government.
Barry Kay, ChesterfieldIf the old British Rail had received the financial support now given to the private operating companies we should have a ‘gold plated’ up-to-date railway system.
Andrew Green, SwanseaBig profits, low investment, disastrous service. Change is needed now.
James Keiller, CheltenhamI can remember with happiness before Beeching and privatisation.
Jeremy Tothill, OldburyNow would be a good time to re-nationalise British Rail.
Robert Danvers-Wright, SittingbourneThese are our services, paid for by our taxes, this sort of privatisation should be illegal.
Richard Aspin, BlackburnI would really like to be an active member and see the return of public rail services. I have travelled thousands of miles under private rail and public rail.
Claire Fitch, St AlbansThe railway should go back to being nationalised. We didn’t have the problems we have today and the pricing was better and you didn’t get ripped off by the train companies.
Terry McCann, WorthingThe transport of people around our country is a public service, not a profit opportunity for the benefit of fat-cats.
David Crawford, KilmarnockWe need a unified rail system run not for profit but as a public utility.
Chris Tucker, BristolNationalised services for the common good should be preferred over shareholder profit for the privileged few.
William Hunter, HartlepoolPrivatisation has not worked. It is only the Conservative ideology behind this matter.
Liam Bright, LondonGive us back our stuff.
Stephen Elves, FavershamTrains for the many, not profits for the few.
Mike Morris, SwanseaI’m fed up with Arriva Trains’ poor and expensive service (if you can call it a service).
Vic Brunt, BiggleswadeIs has not worked. Bring back a publicly owned, publicly controlled, unified national railway system now.
Christopher Willan, BirminghamPublic services should be owned and run by the public, for the public good, not for profit.
Joshua Melville, OxfordEfficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly public infrastructure is not compatible with profit incentive. The rail networks should be owned nationally.
Ged Moore, JarrowFranchising doesn’t work. How can operators on different routes provide competition? Thatcher idiocy.
Arvind Jadwa, LondonThe service has been bad since privatisation, and the fares sky high.
John Walker, ColchesterThe railways need to be re-nationalised – the investment in our network needs to be overhauled. We invented the railways, let’s make it the envy of the World again!
Maureen Sharpe, BradfordIt, like a lot of other publicly-owned companies, should never have been sold off to start with.
Stuart Holden, NottinghamYou know it makes sense.
Linda Barker, LeedsRe-nationalise our assets.
David Sterratt, EdinburghBR cost taxpayers about a third of what the privatised railway does now and was cheaper for passengers too. Nationalise franchises when they expire for greater efficiency.
Lesley Grahame, NorwichPlease support Caroline Lucas’s Rail Bill to bring contracts back in-house. 2nd reading 20th January 2017.
Andrea Knight, BrightonMy dad was a train driver all his life before he died in 1987. He would hate the state of the privatised rail system if he could see it.