No arguments left for privatisation. Consumers continuously suffer for corporate profits.

Kerry Brown, Sevenoaks

Because it will work better.

Wendy Bennett, Wallasey

Give us back our National Rail.

Ellie Gibbs, Knaresborough

A public service is for the public – not for profit.

Tina Wilson, Newton Abbot

I’m sick of seeing profiteering from our infrastructure.

Jeff Zie, Dorking

The railways should never have been privatised. Track maintenance is not done as well as under BR, prices are too high and they are understaffed.

Charles Punchard, Durham

I pay over £6,000 per year for a very substandard service. All of this money should be invested in the railways – not on dividends or bonuses.

Mike Eames, Brighton

Just give it back, please.

Maggie Gallimore, Nottingham

I long for the day when we have a national rail service for one and all.

Paul Rutter, Farnborough

When I think of what we used to have and what we have now it is definitely regression not progression.

Julie Hope, Cheddar

This proud institution should never have been dismantled in the first place. Like so many other services, they place profit before people…

Sally Freear, Heysham

One service overall makes sense.

Caroline Aboa, Luton

If we re-nationalise the train service then maybe the price of a ticket will reflect the service.

Yasmin Osborn, Sheffield

Public transport systems should not be there to make a profit. They are there for all of us, for the public, by the public.

Colin Bloomfield, Letchworth

East Coast shows that nationalisation can work. I have used trains in many countries and our chaotic, privatised, piecemeal, non-integrated system is one of the worst.

Anthony Cohn, Leeds

We all knew this privatisation was unworkable from the start, and the way it is financed now is a public scandal.

Paul Higginbotham, Reading

It’s time the Labour Party made it a manifesto pledge.

Atkins Andy, Leeds

An essential service should not be run for profit but as a service.

Lorna Robertson, Surrey

Not only the rail network but the whole of the transport network should be brought back into public hands.

Richard Longhurst, London

This alleged privatisation has been costing British tax-payers far too much and provided nothing for us. Seize the so-called rail companies’ assets and re-nationalise.

Tom Halpin, Aberystwyth

Price rises will prevent me going to see my daughter or ever going to work. My local train service is rubbish, with trains always late and I can never get a seat.

Neil Edwards, Walsall

Ticket price is a theft. Do something about it.

Rafal Drozdowski, Chelmsford

The SNCF is superb but put together in such a way that it cannot be used as a political pawn and underfunded.

Dominic McCabe, Poole

We, the British people, deserve a rail system that works efficiently.

Heath Thomas, Reading

Train travel is completely extortionate and, without a centralised rail system, there is no accountability for train fares. The situation is completely ridiculous.

Ruth Gordon, Bristol

They should never have been privatised.

Ian Tomlinson, Liverpool

I rarely use trains since it took 7 hours to go from Chester to Doncaster. After that journey I purchased a motorcycle and never looked back.

Neil Harness, Weston Super Mare

I wholeheartedly agree with your aims. Ex-British Rail employee, took voluntary redundancy in disgust after privatisation. RIP Bob Crow and John Green.

Stephen Williams, Ashford, Kent