Alfie Venner Woodcock, LondonLong journeys using more than one train company are hell. These competing train companies are by nature disinclined to co-operate, directly disadvantaging the traveller.
David Rickelton, Newcastle-upon-TyneEast Coast has been a success. Let this line stay in public ownership and re-nationalise the other lines.
Michael Baker, CardiffThe sooner the better.
Brian Armstrong, LondonWhen the cost of tickets keeps going up so that the shareholders can have a pay-out each year, the services are getting no better. It is time it was run by one body.
Paul Lock, StroudPrivatisation has been an unmitigated disaster.
Stephen Elves, FavershamTrains for the many, not profits for the few.
Veronica Haines, LlanelliThe network should be rationalised and expanded.
Mike Eames, BrightonI pay over £6,000 per year for a very substandard service. All of this money should be invested in the railways – not on dividends or bonuses.
James Harrison, HartlepoolDo the power companies and water also.
William Smith, ManchesterI stand with Labour against rip-off Northern Rail.
Geoff IngramMy father-in-law was on a train broken down for 4.5hrs. It took him13.5hrs to cross London, after which he was fuming and died of a heart attack.
Jack A, LondonBring it back.
Alice Pearson, Newcastle-upon-TyneFallacy of competition improving service and reducing costs thoroughly falsified by our extortionate rail system.
Eric Mcrory, BearsdenThe last time the railways were nationalised they were systematically starved of investment. Ensuring that does not happen again will make the re-nationalisation successful.
Glen Slater, KingstonTransport and utilities are not suitable for foreign ownership.
William Paul Brook, CullercoatsBeeching got it wrong in the 60s and the Tories got it wrong in the 90s. We need a unified rail transport system for the UK.
Christopher Willan, BirminghamPublic services should be owned and run by the public, for the public good, not for profit.
Alec Thorne, BedfordBring BR back.
George O’Mahoney, St Leonards-on-SeaIt’s the intelligent and rational thing to do.
Steve Dalton, BarnsleyAs a person who prefers good service for customers over meaningless profits for shareholders, I’d be happy to see a return to rail travel being publicly owned again.
Joshua Langstaff, DriffieldWe need cheaper, people-friendly fares not company fares. If we go back to state ownership of railways with British Rail everyone should have a better outcome.
Christopher Thomson, ChelmsfordThe prices are beyond a joke. An end to privatised railway services must come.
Nikhil Reji, PrestonWhile prices rocket, the train service quality is getting lower and lower. UK needs to look at other countries’ train services.
Michael Newton, DoncasterPut an end to all this privatisation. It’s the ordinary British person’s tax that built our once great railways – hence British Rail. Since privatisation just a mess.
Colin McDonald, Herne BayNot just re-nationalisation, but as part of an integrated public transport system tasked with reducing road traffic – and under its real name, BRITISH RAIL.
Andrea Fry, HuddersfieldThe sooner the rail service is out of the hands of greedy shareholders, the better.
Francis Doherty, BishopbriggsBring it back including the tended gardens and tea ladies.
Susanna Newbery, LondonTrain ticket prices are disgraceful these days. How are we meant to stop using cars and save the Environment with costs as high as they are?
Ed Mander, BridgwaterBring back British Rail.
Imelda Havers, YorkPrivatisation of British Rail network has been a disaster for travellers and taxpayers. Build on the success of East Coast line and make our network public again.