Liam Murphy, BirminghamEssential services should be provided by taxes – not toys for corporations to rake in the profits and screw the people they know have no other choice of travel.
Dave Forecast, EdinburghEast Coast is the best. They have decent fairs, a great awards system and good service. Why privatise again? Oh, and they make a profit by the way.
Prasad Sriramula, LondonTrain commuting to work is a basic need not a luxury.
Andrew West, ChathamOur railways are the most expensive and the most unreliable in Europe.
Fred Johnson, LondonPut an end to this disastrous privatisation.
Keith Collinson, SwanlandProfits for a better railway not shareholders.
David Jackson, Stony StratfordThe Will Hutton article (Sunday 24 August, The Observer) makes perfect sense.
Sarah Mason, SittingbourneBritish Rail should never have been privatised. It should be run as a public service for the people not private profit, as should the energy companies.
Graham Fox, ManchesterThe railways are a public service vital to the country and should not be privatised, with the profit going to subsidise other European state railways. It’s disgusting.
Reece Churm, LeedsBring back British Rail and create a (North-South) Leeds metro line. Also no to HS2.
Danny BarrettBrilliant idea. I agree 100%!
Jack Lindsay, SkegnessBring it back. Privatisation is killing off this country.
Alec Hayes, Burgess HillScrew Southern Rail.
Stephanie Potts, NorwichThis country needs an integrated and unified rail system run for public benefit not a host of private companies making profit for shareholders.
Paul Brookes, WalsallNot for profit.
Harish Gottipati, SloughPrivatisation has no quality. Please bring back BR so that the prices are in control and affordable.
Susan Judd, LincolnThis needs doing.
Teresa Godbert, HerefordI used to know how to buy a train ticket and now even such a simple thing as that has become impossible.
Catol Kirkman, HoveUnreliable service is ruining the quality of my family life. To consistently have trains from Victoria to Hove cancelled is appalling.
Robert Knox, SheffieldBring it back! Private rail is a racket.
Geoff Cook, CalneI can’t contemplate using the railways again, ever.
Graham Armfield, WokingThe fact that the East Coast Mainline can run well at less of a cost to taxpayers shows how rail privatisation is conning us all.
Kieranne Page, LondonPrivatising the national rail network was the worst possible thing that could have happened to our national transport system. Bring back public control, not big corporations.
Mary Blundell, GranthamBeeching began the demise of the railways.
Andrew McIntosh, HebburnWe need this and the utility companies back as the competition route isn’t working.
Thomas Wilson, GravesendTaxpayers paid for it and we pay the MPs, yet they want to sell everything for profit.
John Birbeck, YorkWhat a mess.
Samuel Fitzgerald, CaerphillyIt is time to bring back what we lost, to the forefront of the railway network.
Frank Burgin, SheffieldWe used to complain about British Rail, but the expensive privatisation is a dog’s breakfast. Kill it dead and bring back proper public services.
Colin Carpenter, BedfordWe need to unify the railways again to make them much cheaper for us to use, so we need British Railways back again.