Stephen Field, WarwickPrivatisation was just a con and a rip-off of public funds. Let’s see an end to it.
Helen Dixon, HoveDefinitely.
George Tuck, GatesheadLike may privatised national assets, the service went down and prices up to satisfy the fat cats and to hell with customers.
Ariadna Coten, BarcelonaAll our support from Stop Pujades transport Barcelona.
Gill Cuthbertson, BangorThe system is not fair. Different subsidies or hike-ups in different regions. It needs intelligent organising.
Nic Szeremeta, TorquayGiving a country’s infrastructure to profiteers is a bad joke.
Jackie Lewin, NorwichI believe the public needs to have a greater say in the running of the railways so it should return to British Rail.
Jon McCarthyRail privatisation has not worked, is not working and will never work!
Catherine Brotherston, EdinburghAll transport systems should be integrated, reasonably priced and in public ownership.
Michael Frank Ricketts, BuntingfordPrivatisation has benefited us by providing the most expensive rail travel in Europe and a ticketing system which defies belief. End this farce now.
Catherine Gogarty, GatesheadThere is too much fragmentation in the railway system. We need a nationalised company to oversee the whole system. Fares are too high and trains are not reliable.
Christopher Smith, CoventryHS2 plus high ticket costs prohibit train travel by a large, poorer section of our society and therefore inhibits jobs and prosperity.
Darren Gallacher, Clacton-on-SeaWhen will governments learn that they are representative. We pay tax for national services and it’s not theirs to sell – its ours.
Patric Monney, BirminghamEnd this national disgrace of this decimated transport system and put it back in public ownership and people that give a damn about it.
Dave ChapmanWe need a railway service, not railway companies.
Juliet Wilson, EdinburghWe need affordable, interconnected, environmentally friendly rail services.
Neill Grant, DerbyThe profits made by the train companies are subsidised through the public purse. If we’re paying for this anyway, why don’t we own it?
John Michael Swarbrick, LeylandYou only realise how good something is when you lose it!
Barry Cruttenden, Weston-super-MareOnly issue I have is the possibility of strikes/work-to-rule as there used to be when we has a nationalised railway. If this can be avoided then re-nationalise ASAP.
Martin Davison, ChesterfieldRe-nationalising our railways is the most cost-effective and operationally efficient thing to do. Private monopolies only work for the shareholders – not the customers.
John Sherwell, MargateIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Liz Annetts, DerbyWe need a unified nationalised railway.
Sue Radford, YorkWe are a not very big island in the Atlantic ocean The railways, like electricity and gas should be run by the nation for the nation. We don’t need corporate investors.
N Power, ManchesterThey should never have been Beechingised in the first place, and put freight back on the rail.
David Kent, PrescotThe British railway system should be in public hands. Most of what was closed by Beeching should be re-opened, as people live in those isolated places now with poor public transport.
Paul Ross, LetchworthPeople don’t want to see the true cost of privatisation. They have heads buried in the sand.
Charlotte Warne Thomas, LondonFed up with the swindle of private corporations creaming off public subsidy and providing shoddy service!
Patsy Willis, St AlbansI am all for this. The railways are a shambles at the moment and too expensive. BR will be much better and end all the nonsense with fares.
Fred Hayles, St Leonards On SeaAll British owned utilities have gone down hill since Maggie Thatcher started her demolition of Great Britain.
Margaret McFadyen, NorwichToo right. Fragmentation of the railways to private companies is a total mess. Train travel is more expensive, more stressful and a lot worse than it used to be.