I’m 100% in favour of re-nationalisation of all public transport.

Shaun Featherstone, Cardiff

I am a former railwayman and think bringing back British Rail wouldn’t be a backward step.

David J Page, Portsmouth

Public service not a profit making industry.

Richard Quigley, Birmingham

Bring it back.

Edward Hughes, York

Public services for the public, not for private profit.

Brian Southam, Leamington Spa

We pay our fares to get somewhere, not to fill directors’ and shareholders’ pockets. Because of high wages and dividends there is no money for improvement works.

Malcolm Judd, Romford

The rail service should never have been privatised in the first place.

Miranda Saunders, Barnsley

And the water, gas and electricity.

Paul Taylor, Bristol

Great Eastern did very well when the franchisee cleared off. A lesson must be learned.

Rod Atkin, Strood

Re-nationalisation.

Kevin Ryan, Birmingham

Bring all the Rail franchises back into public ownership. Then they’ll be out of the money grabbers and their cash rich benefactors

Alan Keenan, Glasgow

One unified organisation is what we need. It should never have been privatised.

Marie Gilman, Rotherham

Public transport should be a service, not a business.

Jan Halligan, Holmfirth

We are all in this together. BBBR.

John Hughes, Wirral

We want cheap fares. I want to travel around the network but it’s so expensive.

Ted Barnes, Aylesbury

We should concentrate on the good points of British Rail instead of the curly sandwiches put down.

Peter Hanson, St Helens

I work for the Kent train operating company and I would rather be working for a company that is a not for shareholders’ profit.

Paul Doe, Crowborough

Why pay dividends to shareholders when the money would be better spent on renewing the rails and trains?

Ian Sadler, Leeds

The East Coast line makes a net profit run by the public sector. Perhaps the rest can too.

Jenny Shevlin, Leeds

I’m fed up with being ripped off by the likes of First Capital Connect, an absolutely useless profiteering company who put profits ”first”.

Paul Sparks

It should be publicly owned.

Russell Wilson, Derby

Re-open as many as possible of the lines and stations erroneously closed by Beeching.

Lawrence Hanney, Bude

These rail services have become pocket-lining mockery. Increasing charges, and declining reliability, massaging the figures and facts to suit their greed.

Steve Howlett, Southend-on-Sea

Need there be a comment? Make rail travel a service again, not a business.

Stuart Roberts, Godalming

The service is run for private profit. The transport system is vital for environmental purposes as well as the needs of the public.

Tom Pitman, Cardiff

Private enterprise is failing and is too expensive. Any surplus should go to the Treasury not to shareholders.

Colin Robinson, Gateshead

Look no further than the success of East Coast Railways in comparison with the failure of previous privatised companies.

Michael Lindsay, Harrogate

Cheap trains for all

Noz Mcneil, Derby

Spend the subsidy on routes not shareholders.

Leila Roberts, Ripon

We need to re-nationalise all the transport and utilities.

William Ryan, Manchester