Dean Faccini, SurbitonIt’s time to put an end to the privatisation of our rail networks. I’m fed up with paying over-inflated prices for inadequate services run by those who remain untouchable.
James Jarvis, SouthamptonWe have a Third World train service.
Dawn Curtis, LiskeardAs a regular user of British railways and a British citizen I want British Rail to belong to the great British public.
David Wallace, HaddenhamBring back BR.
James BucklandThe rail network should not have been privatised in the first place.
John Mapplebeck, BamburghI believe in a publicly owned rail network. Railways are the arteries on which our lives depend. We should own them.
Chris Youhill, LeedsI am totally dissatisfied by the way that Northern Rail is run. “Couldn’t care less” seems to be their almost universal attitude at all levels.
Robin Lenox, Whippingham, Isle of WightThe only way forward for our railways is in the public sector as a non profit company. No greedy shareholders and over-paid directors to cream off the profits.
Matthew Whale, LondonCorrect the disastrous selling-off of our national infrastructure.
Matthew Workman, WarringtonI work in Signalling Operations for Network Rail. Schedule 8 payments are government subsidies to private companies. Bring back British Rail.
Cindy Sullivan, LondonPlease bring back British Rail.
Debbie Wood-Holland, WellingboroughHow can a train trip cost so much? Convenient for rail companies, not the public. So get your snouts out of the trough please.
Caitlin Burns, Leamington SpaThe train service should be more integrated and more affordable, if they want people to use public transport.
Nikki Wood, TodmordenTrains for the people not for profit.
Nick Gregory, DeesideWe live in a beautiful country and I want to share it with my kids, but the cost of rail travel is obscene and prohibitive. Let us have our railways back.
Oscar Franklin, ChathamRail privatisation has been a massive con, leaving us with a fractured network and a cabal of companies sucking up public funds for private profit.
Alistair Ewing, LondonThis could spur the economy’s growth with super fast trains.
Joanne Royston, LondonI’m being priced out by season ticket fares, and am on a three year pay freeze.
Margaret McGowan, EdinburghThis is the strangest ‘privatisation’ I’ve ever come across. Taxpayers’ money is given to the private firms running the railways to shore up nice dividend payouts.
Sue Dobbing, LondonA unified, not-for-profit service puts profit back into the system, can stimulate growth, improve service and wages and increase commitment from staff.
Emily Simpson, CarlisleToo much money is given away to other countries through private companies, it needs to stop.
Christopher Kerr, GlasgowWe need a British state-wide, publicly owned railway and for the sake of old times lets keep it as British Rail.
Peter Clegg, SheffieldWe need an integrated rail service, not one with competing companies resulting in difficulties in organising journeys and crazy pricing structures.
Darren Whittle, WiganBring back British Rail. Stop public money going into foreign rail operators’ pockets to subsidise their own trains.
Kathleen Downes, AylesburyTransport is a fundamental service which should never have been privatised, for travellers to be exploited for huge profits to the few.
Jack Plumb, ColchesterProgress hasn’t been made with privatisation, just big mistakes like the Virgin franchise. BR was when we had and are going to get real progress.
Steve Allen, SheffieldJust make it public.
Solange Freitas, Rio De JaneiroI wish British Rail will be revived by 2023.
Rob Sworn, ReigateThe current UK system is a rip-off. The French system works. I have used it and I know.