Howard Davies, NottinghamEast Coast main line is brilliant under public ownership.
Mike Stevens, LancasterBy improving the current rail system, fewer people will be tempted to use cars for longer journeys which would make the environment more sustainable.
Norman Horton, DarlingtonRailways should be run for the good of the people and not exist to line shareholders’ pockets.
Colin Flowerday, HoltThe British Railways Board ran an excellent train service. These private companies are useless, typical Tory crap. So bring back British Rail.
Sheelagh Nash, DumfriesThe sooner the better.
June Diamanti, Tyne and WearThe train prices are disgraceful for the poor quality we receive. In Europe you’d secure luxury first-class with service accommodation for the equivalent costs.
John Tucker, BrixhamI’ve just returned from train travel through France, Italy and Switzerland and Eurostar. I then went from Paddington to Newton Abbot by First Great Western – oh dear, shameful.
Carol Wood, CoulsdonThe way the railways are run is not run for the public and the staff, it’s for profit. Safety and public no longer matter. Bring back British Rail.
Louise Sumner, LeylandRail travel has never been the same since we lost BR.
Premkumar Ramayen, WokingThe current service is awful and always rising the cost even when inflation is nullified. All they care about is profit and filling up the shareholders’ pockets.
Viv Owen, BradfordSafety and efficiency before profit.
Duncan Harris, Melton MowbrayPrivatisation has been an unmitigated disaster.
Luke Dickens, ManchesterUK trains are over-priced, inefficient and well behind in technology.
AntI lived in SE London for a long and happy time and used BR quite a lot on the way into town. Never was I late or felt unsafe. Privatising is a huge mistake. British Rail forever.
Richard Green, Newton AbbotCurrently there is no competition. I cannot choose which company I use to provide my rail service, so how has privatisation improved customer service?
Peter Benson, GraysPrivatisation has left us with a less safe, far more expensive train service.
Derrick Martin, HornchurchServices were much better and cheaper under BR.
Nick Ingram, NewhavenOur railways are a national disgrace. Put them back in the hands of British Rail and make the government responsible for running it.
Paul Pennington Marshall, BrightonI’m sick of poor service and profits going to shareholders not back into the service.
Jim McClew, WashingtonPrivatisation of the railways has proved to be as ridiculous and impracticable a notion as it always appeared. It’s time to go back to common sense.
Caryl Hughes, StockportBring back the utility companies into public ownership too.
Paul Doherty, LeedsPrivate companies have had long enough to get things right. They receive subsidies for below-par service and vast profits. They should put money back into the rail industry.
Hannah Holroyd, ColchesterToo expensive for such an unreliable service. The new increase is an absolute joke from out-of-touch people with no experience of the service.
Chris Mills, IpswichAll East Anglian train licensees have been a dirty, late, packed-trains nightmare for years. Re-nationalisation is the only answer, and re-open branch lines.
Ian Malcolm-Walker, PooleWe need a single publicly owned railway not only on its own merit but to end the use of fossil fuels both directly and in electricity generation for our trains.
Robert Hicks, HardwickePrivately-owned and operated railways do not put the passengers first. Re-nationalise now.
K Dietz, DunbarTransport should not be privatised. Look at the mess it has become when accountability is to shareholders instead of to passengers.
Ann Newton-Marcial, EastbourneIt should have been taken back into public ownership years ago.
Allan Precious, BillinghamWe need a rail system that looks after the public, not share holders as at present.
Peter Little, DurhamVirtually all privatised rail profits have gone to shareholders. Very little re-investment. Such as it has been, it is the British taxpayer who supplied it.