Stuart PartlettPlease. I can’t get a job and it’s too expensive to use the trains.
Marion Clement, EdinburghWhat is wrong with public services for the public as opposed to selling valuable institutions and infrastructure to private companies beholden to profit and shareholders?
Iain Woolnough, South OckendonAs I work for Network Rail I see how it is working on a day-to-day basis and unless we bring it back under British Rail I foresee major problems and major accidents.
Albert Welch, Houghton-le-SpringJust one of the many privatisations of public services undertaken during the Thatcher regime, all of which have been a total disaster for working families and communities.
Bob Pinder, HebburnI worked for British Rail in 70’s – the butt of everyone’s jokes, but a fully inclusive company. No franchises. Now everyone is paying for privatisation, profit and greed.
Bob Pearson, ChelmsfordNone of the essential public services should ever have been privatised, transport especially. The backbone of a working successful Britain, strong and globally competitive.
Miranda Phillips, St AlbansOver-priced and complicated system of railways. We need a system which is about travelling and not all about how many pieces a system can be broken into as investments.
Mark Green, BirminghamA country’s transport infrastructure should never be in private hands and run for the profit of share-holders.
Roland Bishop, SouthamptonEssential national infrastructure must not be used as a cash-cow for foreign capitalists.
Sheila Rowhan, LondonPut people before profit.
Andy Broadey, ManchesterI am for an efficient, punctual publicly-run rail service, rather than the monopolies of private service providers we currently have, charging inflated prices.
Marina Matosic, BoltonPassengers crammed in between Bolton and Manchester is inhumane. They promise longer trains but it never happens. Another year of hell and profits soaring for Trans Pennine
Jim White, Newcastle-upon-TyneSafety and operation of our rail network should not be in private hands. We need an integrated rail system.
David Elsby, CreweKeep East Coast nationally owned.
Stephen Bailey, BiggleswadeEssential services should not be foreign-owned.
Benedict Woodward, AbergavennyArriva Trains Wales is an absolute joke.
Alan Palmer, NottinghamPeople before profit. It’s that simple.
Andy Butler, NorthallertonVia subsidies, the rail companies are partly nationalised already – the East Coast mainline proves how it can be done properly.
James Forber, WarringtonEnd this madness! Make train prices fair.
Lucy Caithness, LondonThe lack of communication between private network operators has left train journeys devoid of the human touch that it once had as British Rail.
Dave Simms, Yeovil.This must stop. The operators want to make a private profit. When there’s a loss in the offing they hand the keys back. Private profit – public losses.
Elisabeth Kiener, Reepham, NorfolkRailways are too important to remain in private ownership.
Francine Shaw, LondonGNER was re-nationalised for a year after the private company messed up. In that time it became profitable again and on time. As a reward, they sold it to Virgin.
Anne Wren, SaleIt is so very expensive to go by train in this country compared with Europe and the USA. it is subsidised in those countries and so cheap to travel anywhere.
Simon Haigh, YorkBring back sensible prices that don’t change the nearer you get to the date of departure.
Stephen Blomfield, SheffieldThe privatisation of British Rail has proved a disaster for the British public and a bonanza for those businesses in the private sector which provide rail services.
Gillian Harris, LancingRailways for progress not private profit. One government-owned company for cheap fares and efficiency.
Ernie Mirfin, AshfordGive it back to the public who own it and stop the profits going to shareholders.
Hilary Hunt, Market OvertonA rail service where passengers are valued, instead of being ripped off to line the pockets of the already obscenely rich.
Douglas McCoy, St HelierMost people I know would be happy to travel by train if they weren’t so expensive. Let’s get more people off the road by nationalising the railways.