Joan Innes, HuddersfieldIt has not benefited passengers having numerous rail companies, nor is it ethical for these to be profit-making, even though I myself might benefit through my pension.
David Pearce, LondonAs a supporter of TUSC, I am 150% behind re-nationalising state infrastructure, including BR.
Steve Smyth, StonehouseWe deserve the best railway in the world.
Jenny Dimond, WarePublic services should remain as public not private enterprise. Put people before profit.
Brian RacherThe public transport system must be attractive enough to leave your car at home, thereby helping to save the planet.
Darren Rafferty, SheffieldPrivatisation hasn’t worked and the debt is even bigger than British Rail ever had.
Scott Foy, PaisleyTrain travel in the UK is far too expensive for such a poor service.
Paul Leyland, ShawPrivatisation has been an expensive shambles, only made banks money, and has backfired as a way of scrapping rail travel.
Simran Gill, LondonGood luck guys.
Patrick Hilley, KeighleyGreat idea, about time.
Fred Vintner, IpswichTrains in Suffolk are as rare as hens teeth.
John ConleyReturning to British Rail would simplify all the Ticket Clerks’ jobs greatly.
Julia Burns, CardiffThings were so much better under BR.
Peter Dickinson, Brierley HillThe current franchise agreements mean that profits can be sucked away from the railways by private companies, yet the government then has to stump up money for investment.
Isaac Reid-Guest, BirminghamNationalisation is what the rail system needs.
Nick Shelley, NottinghamHow absurd to break up an integrated organisation and sell it to private companies and to other state railway companies.
Ray Packham, Bradford-on-AvonPublic transport should not be run for private profit.
Jim Forward, BrightonPeople above profit.
Mark Morgan, PetersfieldThere should be subsidised or free rail travel for the unemployed and those on low incomes. I can’t even afford to go to London for a day to see the free museums.
Lee Miller, WarringtonToo many words.
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.
Simon Ford, GlastonburyReopen as many of the stations as possible closed by the Beeching review. Glastonbury has no station. Neither does Wells or Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
John Lomax, ManchesterStolen from the British public by Tory capitalists. Re-nationalise now.
Hilary Hillier, BeestonPlease bring back British Rail.
Charles Reid, LeicesterThe sooner we get a public rail service, run for the benefit of the public rather than shareholders, the better.
Timothy Wilson, DundeeEast Coast is better now than it has been for years.
Jean Coates, HarrogateWe need a joined up service and not a cartel of lots of different companies offering us the same tickets and prices.
Peter Hencher-Serafin, StudleyWe did not have a say in selling it off and the way it was done cost the taxpayers a huge amount of money.
Jim McClew, WashingtonPrivatisation of the railways has proved to be as ridiculous and impracticable a notion as it always appeared. It’s time to go back to common sense.
Geoff Walker, Stoke-on-TrentTime for a real change in politics, time for the nation’s good and the welfare of all, not just shareholders.