Enough is enough. The current situation needs to change.

Gregor Thomson

Unified and not for profit. It can’t get better than that.

Abigail Cooper, East Cowes

Yes. Bring back British Rail.

Vivienne E Heatley, London

If foreign state railways can make a profit out of our railways, why can’t our state?

Kay Turberville, Lowestoft

Rail privatisation has been a disaster.

Roger Chiswick, Huddersfield

I’m totally fed up with extortionate rail fares and poor service.

Iain Harding, Guildford

East Coast is in public hands and doing well. It should stay public. Profits are returned to taxpayers.

Jill Hancock, Durham

Subsidise public transport, tax fuel.

Bill Holland, Manchester

Stop the thieving speculators.

Ron Chalack, Sheffield

The current system is a farce, which costs the taxpayer millions and lets private companies skim off the top.

James Honke, Iver

I’m fed up with expensive, overcrowded, unreliable dirty trains. I pay hundreds of pounds a month for a service that I cannot rely upon and is more expensive than driving.

Samantha Wright, Leeds

Re-nationalise our railways now.

David Berry, Wigan

We need to get back public ownership of BR, with company bonuses back to the users.

Andy Fiore, Wivenhoe

As a commuter, I am continually appalled by rising fares and poor quality trains. I object to latent profiteering subsidised with public money for such a poor service.

Hannah Birkett, London

Transport is a fundamental service which should never have been privatised, for travellers to be exploited for huge profits to the few.

Kathleen Downes, Aylesbury

Rail fares in many cases are now simply unaffordable, especially to those on benefit or in low paid work.

Chris Burden, Reading

Do it, and get those money-grabbing bastards out.

David Williams, Leicester

Profit before service has gone on for too long.

Chris Williams, Bromley

I just tried buying a first class ticket (Wakefield-Folkestone) £452 return. All it’s doing is forcing cars onto the road. It’s a disgrace.

Richard Hammond, Wakefield

As well as rail, nationalise the bus and bring back the National Bus Company. Our infrastructure will then improve and we the people will be able to travel for work and leisure.

Paul Riches, Paignton

Yes, re-nationalise it now.

Chris Calo, Harleston, Norfolk

We need more trains. Where I live we are lucky if we get one train an hour. As for the train company they are really bad. British Rail is needed.

Elizabeth Steenton, Craven Arms

As a frequent user of trains, it would make life better if British Rail was returned to us.

Ann Stieglitz, Wallingford

The return of British Rail would give the nation fairness and a national transport network.

Robert Nix, Leominster

Re-nationalise the rail network and put the customer, not profits, first.

David Hornsby, Shipley

End this abomination and greed.

Carol Lilley, Hemel Hempstead

First East Coast trains and now Eurostar. What asset will be next?

William Dickson, Grangemouth

It can’t happen soon enough.

Adrian Morris, London

They’re a national embarrassment at the moment.

Andrew Barnett, London

Unified, national, well planned, strategic, facilitating leisure and the economy, cheaper, better, social – easy.

John Parkes, Leeds