The first priority for private companies is their shareholders who want a profit. Nationalise the railways and make them profitable for tax-payers.

Eve Luddington, Chapel Allerton

In order to get a joined up approach to routes, safety, running times, rural service etc. – we need nationalisation.

Maggi Bevan, Reading

I use East Coast and it’s brilliant under public ownership compared to when National Express operated it.

Robert Bridge, Hampton Hill

Public transport should remain public.

Suki Gill, Slough

Southern trains are a national disgrace. Their service is appalling. I commute into London from Horsham and am constantly delayed, paying almost 4grand for the privilege.

Sam Davis, Horsham

As the privatised industry is in receipt of massive public subsidies, it should be returned to the public.

Bruce Van De Gevel, Huddersfield

Nationalisation to benefit every passenger, not privatisation to benefit shareholders’ bank balances.

Katrina Taylor, Whitstable

British Rail should never have been privatised in the first place. Bring ownership back to those who pay their taxes.

Ann Ferguson, Tyne and Wear

The cost of rail fares now is so expensive I can no longer afford to travel.

Debby Poole, Stoke-on-Trent

I totally agree with re-uniting the national rail network.

Stephen Bellamy, Ingatestone

We own most of the road network so it’s time to own the rail network.

Russell Miller, West Wickham

The pretended benefits of privatisation have nowhere been more brutally exposed than in the chaos and wastage of resources that have afflicted the railways.

Graham Croft, London

Privatisation was done on the cheap, supposedly to allow the firms to upgrade the network which they reneged on.

Mark Stewart, Ayr

Expropriate the train robbers.

M Murphy, Scunthorpe

I strongly support this campaign. Rail travel to work is becoming prohibitive by cost and is causing an exodus of talent from the city.

Richard Sharp, Colchester

Privatised rail services are a disgrace. Services are overcrowded and late and prices are becoming extortionate. Network Rail should be taken back into public ownership.

Susan Callaghan, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Just give it back, please.

Maggie Gallimore, Nottingham

Stop the rip-off!

Spencer Preece, Hereford

Why don’t the Labour party back this? Why, it might get them some votes.

Ian Cumming, Newton Mearns

East Coast is the best service presently in the UK, doesn’t have to pay a dividend to rich shareholders, and is less of a burden on taxpayers than any private company.

Christopher Rowe, Durham

Do I need to explain why bringing the train network back in house is a good thing? Surely the greedy mismanagement of the private sector has already done it.

Dennis Bridges, London

Maintaining the railway in public ownership, as a vertically organised system, is the only sensible arrangement.

Theodore Bacon, York

Privatisation has hit the buffers. Bring Back British Rail!

Tom Austin, Crewe

A very good campaign – all the best with your efforts.

John Morgan, Flitwick

For the past months my morning Southern train to Victoria was never on time and you couldn’t get on it as it was way overcrowded. This is unfair. What do I pay for?

Rafael Kowalczyk, London

Glad to be a part of this movement. British Rail must be re-instated, no ifs or buts.

Bill Duckworth, Chipping Norton

Application of honest good sense on this matter is long overdue.

John Butler, Strabane

It’s time to take back all that was stolen from the British public.

Alex Allardyce, Leicester

Privatisation of the rail network has devastated this country. I think the entire infrastructure of the UK is falling apart bit by bit. It’s very sad to see this happening…

Julia Logie, Heathfield

Transport is a public asset, and should be owned by the public. The banks next.

Delwyn Davies, Abertillery