Ula Taylor-Reilly, PortsmouthAffordable travel is a necessity in terms of practicality and quality of life. As a student, despite my costly 16-25 railcard, I find train fares crippling and limiting.
Charlotte Rayment, BrightonI am a train driver for London Underground and I am always made late picking up my train and this affects the Victoria line service. It goes on my record too. I will go part time.
Steven Lissemore, CoventryA unified rail system is the best thing for this country.
Tracey Batchelor, DundeeI fully back this cause, despite the way all our services and utilities have been sold off and been raking in a profit ever since, but service has suffered and all for fat cats.
Chris Daly, GomshallAnything that gets privatised gets run for profit and then profit becomes the most important thing instead of what it was intended for.
Neil Kempten, SudburyI don’t travel by rail because I don’t know how to go about getting a ticket. Nothing seems to be joined up, finding things out is difficult, so I’ll just clog up the roads.
David Larder, RetfordThe public ownership of the East Coast line, now being privatised, which has significantly failed in the past, shows public ownership works. on railways.
Jonny Evans, LondonRail privatisation has not worked. Higher prices, more route confusion and just as inefficient. Yet we paid for the railways, so surely efficiency has failed.
Louis Boyce, Kingston-upon-ThamesOnce upon a time we, the common people of the UK, did own BR. Then we gave it away to the rich kids to play with.
Ian Oage, BristolThe only way to save the railways and to have a safe and cost-effective transport network.
Tim Baker, West BridgfordEnough is enough. As a regular user of trains who experiences the ridiculous pricing, it’s time to get some standardising back to this public service.
David Clancey, St NeotsIf you could see how well the railway operates in Portugal then you would be ashamed by the UK system.
John Smith, AbingdonPrivate TOCs take the profits while the UK public accept all the risks at present. How can that ever be a fair system?
Paul Brookes, WalsallNot for profit.
Roger Wells, StourbridgeThe Tories won’t do it but why didn’t Labour?
Julia Inch, EnfieldBritish Rail belonged to us before the sell-off and privatisation but we want it back nationalised and belonging to us again.
Lee Fisher, MiddlesbroughIt ran better in public hands
May Loose Jamal,I heart British Railways.
Dorothy Frizelle, BeverleyThe current situation is ludicrous. We need one system, with one goal – public transport for Britain, not profit for the elite few.
Eira Short, RochdaleWe want our public transport service back. We still pay for it in taxes.
Andrew Moore, EnfieldMajor infrastructure components such as all of the rail network should be nationally owned and operated.
Jonathan Gulliford, Merthyr TydfilThe railways belonged to us before they were sold off. Re-nationalise British Rail and use any profits to re-invest in the infrastructure, not line the pockets of the rich.
David Thornewell, AylesfordI agree the present system is overcomplicated and needs reform. But to put down a marker, I still want ticket offices at major stations.
Matthew George, PenzanceOur railway is currently an embarrassment. Forget the shareholders and sort it out.
Stephen Noble, WakefieldThe privatised railway costs five times what British Rail cost.
Raj Curry, LondonCounterfeit capitalism serves no-one.
Rosemary Blake, LondonHow much more can the ordinary person take? Let down by politicians and bankers and held to ransom by the greed of the people running virtually everything else.
Nicholas Commandeur, LeedsLong term management of train tracks needs to be integrated with the operations. Private finance of trains with private equity money is expensive compared to Government debt.
Ian Wallis, PeterleeWe already subsidise them so we might as well have the profit.
David Toward, NewcastleThe rail services in Britain are an absolute embarrassment! No other first world country has a rail service this poor.