Edward Sherlock, CarmarthenAfter twenty years of greed, incompetence and lack of investment, it is time to accept that private capital cannot run a railway or a health service.
Rick Herco-Thomas, CardiffPublic transport needs to be public, with all profit used to maintain and improve services.
Chris Helme, YorkI would like to see our great British rail network back in the hands of the people. All the other private companies have failed. Prices are ridiculously high and unfair.
Sue Flint, BristolHigh time, too.
Andrew Hardman, ChesterfieldThe breaking up of British Rail has been bad for the country, bad for communities and terrible for the travelling public. Bring back British Rail.
William Lamb, Bishop AucklandIt is time to abandon the failed privatisation of the railways. Let’s bring them back into public ownership.
Julie Birkle, NottinghamI can’t afford to get to work. It got so bad (£10 a day) I’ve left England for Hong Kong. The service was poor, last train 9pm and two hours wait between trains.
Roger Bridgman, LondonBritish Rail offered a good service. Left as it was, it would soon have reached the glossy standards of today’s overpriced, heavily subsidised private companies.
Ray Tidd, SouthendThe way things are going with privatisation, there will be no safety left on the railways, with all the job cuts, disasters waiting to happen. I work for them.
Richard Royle, LancasterNo state subsidies for private operators to get rich at our expense.
Anne Stephens, LancasterOh yes please, let’s return to the sanity of a nationalised rail system.
Tony Fielding-Raby, LincolnI’ve been a keen supporter for some time. More power to the campaign.
Owen Thomson, AberdeenThese vultures are burning far more public money than BR ever did (and it’s all going into private pockets.)
Philip Gibbard, CambridgeThe railways should be a publicly-owned, fully integrated, modern service, not a money-making machine for a few greedy companies subsided by the taxes.
Simon Walsworth, LondonThere’s nothing as important as getting our people to work. Rail travel should be owned and run by the people for the people.
Nathan Baigent-West, LittlehamptonI’m fed up with Southern Rail delaying and cancelling trains, constantly making me late for work.
Sam Sadjady, LondonThe service, the atmosphere, the filth and, above all, having your pants pulled down every day!
William Nealon, RugbyI don’t understand that when Network Rail do repair work, they have to compensate private train operating companies. If it was state owned, think of the saving.
Alison Oxley, PickeringWhy break something that was working so well?
Faisal Qureshi, CheadleIt’s cheaper for me to fly on a return trip to Berlin than it is to go from Stockport to London. There is something wrong here.
Bob McNair, KilbarchanBritish Rail needed a shake up, not privatisation – ex Railway Signalling Instructor.
Donal Shea, LondonThe political party willing to take this action will have a powerful example of how they are resisting the idea of profit for the few over the welfare of the many.
Colin Noble, HuddersfieldMy old man worked for British Rail from 1936 to 1967. He was just a driver/labourer, but he loved the job.
Andrew Walker, AshfordRail journeys were simple under British Rail. Since privatisation, rail services have become expensive, disjointed, un-reliable and over-crowded. Privatise. No profit.
David Messent, HoveTake control of our dysfunctional rail network and make it whole again.
Peter Greenwood, DarlingtonPassengers before profits.
Luke WhaleyIt’s a terribly disjointed and unsatisfactory national rail system, geared not towards public satisfaction but to private profit.
Rob Lucas, Ross-on-WyeThe time has come to undo much of the havoc wrought be the unlamented Margaret Thatcher.
George Davies, DarwenPublic services should be run and owned by the public, not private financial institutions who care only about profit and not service. It’s a no brainer.
Paco Terrasa, RotterdamThe British railway system is an awful experience. It can and should be done much better. You invented the railway system: claim it back.