Marilyn Tsiorvas, SheffieldThe current situation of private companies is chaotic and inefficient for customers and increasingly impoverishing for us and enriching for the shareholders.
John Myers, RedcarOnly a publicly owned railway can ensure that rail travel is a fairer, cheaper transport system owned by the people for the people.
Martin Jones, LondonWe have the opportunity to make public services work well, and avoid the compromises of the first British Rail.
Diane Sullivan, RedhillSouthern Fail. No more price hikes for a disgusting service.
R SutherlandPublic money goes to Train Operating Companies as subsidies and shareholders’ dividends vanish offshore. How is the current set-up not out and out illegal?
John Byrne, GatesheadYes, bring back British Rail and re-nationalise all the utility companies which are currently holding the country to ransom (to use a 1970’s phrase.)
Natalie Lamb, ChiselboroughIt is crazy that it’s usually double the cost for me alone to travel by train than car. I do however as I am deeply concerned about my carbon footprint.
Paul Rocks, StreathamI’ve spent hours and tens of thousands of pounds over the last 10 years on privately-owned trains. The fruits of Southern, FGW & South West trains leaves me unimpressed.
Phil Sherwin, LondonBring back British Rail.
Matthew Nation, BirminghamTrains should be simple and affordable. They are currently complicated and unfairly priced.
Dennis Warwick, Burley-in-WharfedaleI grew up with the Labour Party in the 1940s. We knew what was best for Britain. Public ownership of our railways is still a vital necessity.
Paul Cope, Hayling IslandBring back British Rail – it belongs to the people not private business.
Moira Gommon, BirkenheadBring back British Rail!
Susan Murphy, NewarkNo more unfulfilled promises of improvements. Nationalise now. People before profits for a change.
Barry Reeves, BlabyChristian Wolmar calculates that BR cost between £1m and £1.5m and today the railway cost £6m, including the Network Rail Debt. The lunatics are running the asylum.
Jackie Smith, LondonIt’s got to be a joke the overcrowding on London trains and the regular price rises above the rate of inflation. Yet shareholders get returns and bosses get bonuses.
Philip Graves, IpswichElectricity, Gas, Water, Post Offices and British Telecom (one phone company). We all need these services and privatisation has done nothing for us.
Chris Hogg, Melton MowbrayI’m a signaller for 35 years. Re-nationalise to prevent the madness of hundreds of companies working against each other.
Wilson Newbould, LivingstonThis is another example of politicians giving individuals increased power and influence to the unelected. Why?
Ron Green, BroomLet us try to recover from the privatisation disaster of John Major’s government.
Paul BrightA reliable railway network should connect people in local towns and villages so they longer need expensive petrol driven cars.
Eva Fox-GThe privatised companies have now had long enough to show us absolutely clearly that the railways would be better publicly owned.
Colin Fribbens, ExeterBritish Rail should be owned by the people and make enough profit to keep it first class for all users, not shareholders.
Philip De Lacy White, North CaveBritish trains are probably the most expensive and complicated to use in all Europe. Prices vary according to how you go about buying a ticket. It is so complicated.
Simon Barlow, CheltenhamBetter rail travel is integral to economic growth and reducing the impact on the environment. Only publicly owned, publicly run will achieve this, not a profit-led company.
Hedley McCarthy, Blaenau GwentNot just popular with Labour core voters, but it would be popular in commuter land.
Jonathan Futrell, PadstowTake profit out of the equation and we will have a British Rail that works and of which the nation can be proud.
Fraser Healey, BrightonStop this scam and bring back British Rail.
Charles Knight, CambridgeRailways should be public transport, not private enterprise.
Barry Davies, StaffordBritish Rail should never have been privatised and Virgin can cover the East Coast line costs from its West Coast profits.