Bring back British Rail to make fares fairer.

Gerry Norvill, Lowestoft

Let’s fix this. One of the biggest mistakes in the ’90s.

Dave Gonzalez, Oxfordshire

Buying tickets is fragmented and complicated.

Leslie Glass, Haverhill

Bring back British Rail. Privatisation isn’t working.

Philip Kingston, Woking

As a proud Brit on the continent, the state and price of UK trains is appalling. Profit for a few and misery for us. No competition and no incentive to improve or reduce prices.

Michael McClean, Hamburg

Railways are an important public service and should be run as such. They should not be a privately-owned commodity to be used for profit.

Liam Hand, Edinburgh

Services as important as a National Rail network should be run by the public sector for the public and never for private profit for the 1%.

Brett Crane, Exeter

The monopoly on train services has gone on for too long, the services they provide are a joke to put it politely.

Gavin Pickles, Leeds

To pay £10,500 a year for a 90 minute Journey to London is disgusting. This would not happen in any other nation. Something needs to be done,

Brian Marto

I am old enough to remember the good old days of BR when we all knew what the fares were without going through different web sites and companies.

Barry Woodcock, Kettering

The ownership of the railways should never have been separated. The railway experts said it would not work and it doesn’t.

Sonia Gray-Clough, Harrogate

More people would use railways if they were more affordable.

Kim Rowling, Newton Aycliffe

I want collective ownership of a rail transport system for the benefit of service users, not shareholders.

Mary Wyburn, Ambleside

Keep up the good work.

Ian Carnew, Bristol

Invest taxpayers’ money in the rail network, not in corporate welfare schemes.

Stuart Curran, Cooksbridge

I come from Blackpool to Manchester each day for work. This costs £3236 per year. The trains are old, dirty and generally not up to standard with the amount I am paying.

Debbie Horn, Blackpool

We used to have an easy to understand railway system with a sensible ticketing structure.

John Wilson, Cambridgeshire

I just found you today. I want it back in public ownership too, wishing you all the best.

Keith Green, London

Passenger train operation should be for the benefit of travellers – not shareholders. And a unified InterCity could offer seamless integrated long-distance services again.

Mike Machin, Southampton

The 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.

Jonathan Gulliford, Merthyr Tydfil

Bring back British Rail.

Susan Walsh, Boston

We live in Northumberland and we want a train.

Janet Ferry, Blyth

I was surprised to see a news item on BBC at the weekend that Berlin is having a referendum to re-nationalise its power supply. It seems the light is dawning.

Graham Holt, Durham

Bring back British Rail and the General Post Office, telephone and internet services too.

Aaron Gray, Bath

Bring back British Rail now.

Deirdre Robson, Haltwhistle

Bring public transport back to the public again, instead of subsidising the profits of private shareholders.

Alan Pool, Royston

I totally agree with bringing British Rail back. Instead of rail being in corporate hands, give it back to the people.

Mark Pullen, Ripley

I think that any company which is meant to provide a public utility service should be run by the government with any profits generated going directly back into it.

Douglas Neal, Wooler

This was a fatuous privatisation driven by greed and ideology (aren’t they all?) not public service and a sense of community.

Dave Crowe, Crediton