Barry Teague, BuryBring back British Rail.
Muhammad Ansari, OxfordThe government should own the rail system and provide service to the people, not people owning it for profit.
John Reeves, EdenbridgeTell me what I can do to help.
Betty Eade, LeedsPrivatisation does not bring automatic success. Look at G4, for example. It usually means increased prices and poorer service.
Angela Sansam, HarrogatePrivatisation has been a complete disaster and has definitely not brought benefits for rail users.
Joshua Melville, OxfordEfficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly public infrastructure is not compatible with profit incentive. The rail networks should be owned nationally.
Michael Lindsay, HarrogateLook no further than the success of East Coast Railways in comparison with the failure of previous privatised companies.
Derek Jones, TyldesleyThe so called privatisation is costing the tax payer more than the nationalised railway ever did with duplication of jobs. Surely it’s time to stop this nonsense?
Deborah Gibbens, ShropshireThe railways should be a public service, not a means to extract cash from the public.
Tim Miles, LondonIt’s an essential public service.
Vorn Hancock, CambridgeNot everything in society needs to be organised to be profitable.
Sam Bird, LondonRe-nationalise our railways immediately.
Glenn Richards, Wotton-under-EdgeThe HST (125) had a perfect safety record under BR. Within a few years of privatisation, profit before safety, there were two crashes in London with massive fatalities.
John McCarthy, ManchesterRe-regulate buses as well. Cross-subsidise socially necessary routes instead of funding millionaires.
Ian France, SheffieldOur railways are in chaos: expensive tickets seldom guarantee a seat; overcrowded, underinvested and in need of intensive care.
Raymond Howells, DinningtonTime to stop pandering to the failed markets and letting foreign government-backed organisations buy our railway.
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.
Chris Brettell, RingwoodWe want our railway back. I was a former employee.
Anthony Charles Walker, LeicesterPrices are now ridiculous, especially to London and Liverpool.
David Williams, LeicesterDo it, and get those money-grabbing bastards out.
Stephen Crawley, ManchesterWe need to stop the waste and the vast amounts of money going outside the rail industry and bring back sensible regulated fares for passengers.
Tanya O’Carroll, LondonThe facts speak for themselves. What is the government thinking? We pay higher prices for worse services and we dole out subsidies to profit-making companies
Marten Hynard, Tunbridge WellsDo what works.
Vi Dunning, Thornton-CleveleysIt’s disgusting greed, charging ever higher prices for a sub-standard service.
Catherine Lane, EyeThe privatisation has resulted in more public money being spent. Why is it OK for other countries nationalised rail companies to run British Railways and not our own government?
John Carr, LiskeardIt’s good that we are the safest railway in the world. Let’s bring some money to increase the number of trains and prices that are affordable to passengers.
Caroline Raine, OxfordI’m fed up with complicated rip-off fare structures. I don’t want to pay for private companies’ profits. I want to pay for a decent train service.
Daniel Rodger, BirminghamPrivatisation has gone too far. Distributism advocates that small companies be private, but large companies to be run by employees.
Shan Oakes, BeverleyRail should be a public service and should not be a cash cow for private companies.
John Marshall, MorpethRail essential service is best and effective in public ownership.