Andrew Taylor, OxfordPrivatisation makes no sense. Money from tickets should pay for a better service, not to pay shareholders (and also to subsidise German rail users’ fares.)
Daniel Sharples, WarringtonHow can a billionaire like Richard Branson truly care about everyday people?
Nik Dadson, RoystonWe subsidise rail firms with our taxes, pay way over the top for season tickets from our pre-taxed wages and get an awful service. Profits go to shareholders.
Nathan Roberts, SwindonWe can’t afford train tickets any more.
Adam Hiley, Upminstergood luck with Your campaign
Jack Gouldbourne, SouthamptonThe train companies are thieves, they steal from the young and thrive off the poverty of the country with an increase in demand – we need to put an end to this.
Dee Grimes, LewesWe need to own the railways. They were on time, clean and often newly refurbished, and there was cheaper food.
Brian Moss, East SussexIt should never have been privatised.
Liam Bailey, Southend-on-SeaAll in favour.
John Gessler, BarnsleyThere was much that wasn’t great about BR when it was nationalised, but the current farrago is unliveable with. Phased re-nationalisation is the only practical option. Carpe.
Raymond Howells, DinningtonTime to stop pandering to the failed markets and letting foreign government-backed organisations buy our railway.
Miranda Phillips, St AlbansOver-priced and complicated system of railways. We need a system which is about travelling and not all about how many pieces a system can be broken into as investments.
Joanne Smalley, BeaconsfieldThe service across the Chiltern Railways line has been disintegrating steadily and consistently over many years. The current service shows the results of underinvestment.
Alan Meiklejohn, GlasgowPublic sector ownership is a more efficient model.
Rose Nugent, DarlingtonI actually remember British Rail and, although not perfect, it made co-ordinated travel more easy,
Iain Fletcher, CoventryNational infrastructure does not conform to typical capitalist theory. Monopolies and exploitation are inevitable.
Adrian Uden, LondonThe current service is terrible at best and getting progressively worse. The only conclusion can be that sufficient investment is not being made. EU outperforms UK.
Melonie Gouldbourne, LondonStanding in Virgin train on a impinged knee injury and blistered feet from a charity hike at in the Lake District. £107 to stand for 3-4hrs! Terrible service.
Miranda Lundskaer-Nielsen, BathIt is high time that railways were run for the benefit of all passengers rather than the profits of private stakeholders
Nils Olsen, SheffieldIt’s the sane thing to do.
Roger Averill, NorthamptonThe railways are already nationalised, but it’s the people in Europe who own our railways. Take them back!
Justin Hill, ChesterThe current service is terrible, unreliable and expensive!
Daz NezThousands of good souls together making hundreds of small actions in the right direction towards equality and freedom and away from hierarchy.
Cecilia Buchanan, EdinburghWe need this back. A railway owned by the people and for the people – not for rich shareholders.
Alan Thomson, WareKeep East Coast Trains in public ownership and add also Greater Anglia and First Capital Connect.
Paul Sheppard, LondonSouthwest Trains are crooks.
Andrew Wetherall, Ashford, MiddlesexSet train fares at pence per mile. National railcard will bring a third off the price of the journey.
Sasha Timofeev, CambridgeI desperately need the transport to be fixed. It’s a shame we lag so far behind other countries given our position in the world.
Neil Floate, NottinghamBring back British Rail. Lower costs and more passengers means more money to re-invest back in our railways.
Ronald Mackie, LeedsIt’s not just that state control of our rail system would be better, it is that exploitative for-profit train operating companies increase the running costs.