Wayne Lamming, ScunthorpeThe service is a disgrace and a waste of tax-payers’ money.
Emma Hewitt, PontefractI would like the profits to go into improving one national rail network, not into the pockets of disparate individuals each owning a bit of a fractured system.
Park Chang Sik, Daejon, South KoreaBring back British Rail. The awesome railroad.
Stewart Murray, PrestonIt would be fairer on users.
Richard Carpenter, AbergavennyQualified support only as I don’t want the trade unions running the service.
Dave Lee, GlossopWe can do better, we’re Britain.
Peter Bailey, Melton MowbrayPrivatisation of the railways is for private profit, taxpayers’ subsidies and more road traffic. Stop it now.
Richard Hart, BromleyRailways are a service and not for private profit.
June Bertram, TruroI travel once a week in Cornwall and every journey has been late by more than one hour except on one occasion in the last 6 weeks. How could it be worse?
Rhys Thwaites-Jones, AberystwythThere are no motorways or dual carriageways in our county and the railways are vital. Invest and reinstate the rail link from South Wales to Mid and North Wales.
Bill Hobson, MordenDo away with private regional rail networks.
Lynn Stewart, LondonWe need a change. The way things are now is appalling. We need trains to get to work and they just aren’t working and the companies don’t care. We need a change.
Dan Fortnam, High WycombeStop pumping public money into private enterprise, creating profits for the wealthy rather than keeping rail transport affordable for the nation.
John Lambert, LondonI miss BR.
Darren Bilbie, BelperTake back our railways from fat cats profiteering.
Jack Campbell, LeedsOnly a Tory government would privatise a profit-making, much-beloved line like East Coast rail. It’s not logical, it’s ideological, and we all know it. Stop it now.
Blair Breton, SouthseaModelled on the East Coast service.
Belinda Lowis, Chester-le-StreetWe should remove private profit from all essential services.
Helen Robertson, LancingBring back nationalisation of the railways. The evident failure and cost to the nation has been a false economy. It should just be taken back by the country.
Marilyn Muffett, SomertonWe need a decent, integrated rail service in this country.
Peter Gillon, Sowerby BridgePrivatisation has been a disaster for the railways. We subsidise it more now than when it was publicly owned.
Henry Saville, WallaseyI am so angered by the blatant profiteering of the train operating companies and the obvious inefficiencies created by privatisation.
Beth Neale, WarminsterBring it back.
Kieron Phillips, HartlepoolBritish Rail would benefit the whole country. As the BBC and the NHS are publicly owned, so should the rail service along with lots of other state services!
Andrea Franks, MerseysideThe failure and expense of the privatisation of the railways should be a warning to those who are pushing through similar policies for other public services.
Anthony Kahwati, BearstedThese prices are too expensive. We are being made fools of by the rail companies and the government that allows them to continue. It’s pricing people out of London.
Lynn Breeze, Hebden BridgeRe-nationalise the railways for less confusion.
Jacqueline Zylinski, HerefordMajor hated national rail and privatised it to pay profits to investors and companies. It is an expensive failure for taxpayers and users. Re-nationalise it.
Michael Gerard Joseph Flanagan, CorbyWe need it back.
Gabrielle Deschamps, LondonI’m outraged that two return flights (which are so bad for the environment) from London to Edinburgh come to a total of £45 as opposed to £282 by rail. The world has gone mad.