Christine Cooney, ChippenhamGive people the incentive to ditch their cars and be more environmentally friendly.
Ian Carnew, BristolKeep up the good work.
Spencer Green, OakhamThis is ridiculous. I pay £14.70 a day for my train to college and half the time the train is not even on time or there’s no seats and I have to stand up.
Kyle M, AberdeenThe East Coast mainline focused on the passengers, and returning both profit and other benefits to society. It’s a prime example of how nationalised railways do work.
Barry Ould, AylesburyI’m disgusted at today’s news about Virgin and Stagecoach, getting the East Coast franchise.
Julie Brownlie, DawlishWe need a nationalised railway because being able to travel easily around the country for work and leisure is a necessity that ordinary people are being priced out of.
Patrick Kite, ForfarFully nationalised railway please.
Dave Waugh, EdinburghPrivatisation has not worked for our railways. Check out what comedian Mark Thomas has to say.
Michael Moloney, BanffAbout time, the profiteering rather than service idea makes me sick as a previous employee, now retired.
Simon Pawelko, LlanelliI am a firm believer in Bring back British Rail – one railway, one train operator, one company.
Oscar Wallace, LiverpoolThe current situation is nonsensical except to those private profiteers who are running the railways at a sub-par standard. Bring back British Rail.
John Duggan, YorkThe Tories did some stupid things when they were in power in the 1990’s. The privatisation of BR comes out near the top.
George O’Mahoney, St Leonards-on-SeaIt’s the intelligent and rational thing to do.
Ashley Collier, MansfieldBring back British Rail.
Matthew Stone, HayesTrains cost too much and when it is cheaper to fly within the UK it really is ridiculous.
Phillip Dunkirk, HarrogateBring back British rail
Alf Littler, KidlingtonThe 60s governments got it wrong and the Tories got it wrong in the 90s. We need publicly-run cost-effective railways, not to subsidise private firms to rip us off.
Helen Dixon, HoveDefinitely.
Alan Middleton, DurhamA policy for the integration of all public transport should be urgently pursued.
Mike Campbell, SalisburyIt is a nonsense that a so-called First World country does not have a public train network.
Hugh Gurney, GlasgowHand out subsidies (from our taxes) to hand them to investors? It makes no sense.
J B Barrington, YorkAll the railways should be re-nationalised. There should never be a profit made from a public service.
Peter Turnbull, Turners HillAs it now costs more taxpayers’ money (in real terms) with privatisation, it will be cheaper to re-nationalise (and much better.)
Sarah Dowden, Newcastle-upon-TyneI am a regular traveller on East Coast rail. It runs very efficiently at a profit and I see no good reason why it should be changed.
Allan Sankey, RedditchGWR a joke.
Edwin Robinson, DoncasterI’m with you.
Pete Northcott, CambridgeThe first of many re-nationalisation processes, I hope.
John Quinn, DundeeRailways should be run as a public service, not for private profit. The quality of service in European countries is way better as governments invest more in railways.
Thomas Barlow, ManchesterOur trains seriously lag behind the nationalised systems of France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, all of whom also have much cheaper fares.
Reb Deacon, GloucesterEveryone used to whinge about BR, but if only they had known how bad it would get after privatisation. We are subsidising it far more than when it was ours.