Janine Wilson, LondonNationalise the railways.
Alastair Stewart, LancasterIf we are to support communities and re-connect to a more social way of being other than through Facebook, the rail network requires a solid base to support this from.
Jeffery Thomas, TenbyJoined-up services, ticketing, timetable and proper responsibilities are needed again.
Cecilia Ballesteros, HovePublic transport in public hands.
Alf Littler, KidlingtonThe 60s governments got it wrong and the Tories got it wrong in the 90s. We need publicly-run cost-effective railways, not to subsidise private firms to rip us off.
Lisa Nesbitt, Southend-on-SeaDe-privatise the railway.
Ross Cairney, DundeeRail franchises are a disgrace – ridiculous prices, fares that consistently exceed inflation, rude and abusive staff that go unpunished, plus much more.
Annette Lenton, SussexPrivatisation of trains has patently not worked.
Maggi Hunt, NorthumberlandOur railways are public services. Bring them back into public ownership.
David Sutherland, MontroseBring back British Rail so that the service is first and foremost for the people, not primarily for private economic profit.
Alan Pope, PeterboroughNo more messing about with different fares and different companies.
Lesley Silver, BedfordThis is a public service, not a public cash cow.
Chris Mandaza, BirminghamWe need one rail system for simplicity, convenience and efficiency, not the profit-oriented system we have.
Mary Salisbury, VentnorThe railways should belong to the people of the UK, not corporates.
Jenny Pashley, HarrogateIt is clear that the de-nationalised industry has seen no improvements to services. Travelling often in Europe, it is evident that states can run excellent rail services.
Rupert Kavanagh, Sudbury, SuffolkOnly criminals want things privatised, beginning with the Nazis in Germany.
Jenny & David Pedder, Ashby-de-la-ZouchBritish Rail should never have been privatised. What it needed was a major shake-up of management and it would have been a superb service today.
Barnaby Wimbush, Ramsgate, KentI catch two trains for my commute, from Ramsgate to Maidstone. The fare have started to become ridiculous. My train ticket costs more than my rent.
Tony Hagon, WickUnder this regime there isn’t any real competition. Let the train companies have to maintain their own permanent way etc. Profits?
Alan Freeman, LeedsWe only have the current situation because of the Thatcherite obsession with private enterprise for all things.
Mark Campey, HarrogateWhere I live the rail network is primitive, i.e. diesel trains every half an hour between Leeds and York.
Ross Bennett, YorkI’m tired of massive subsidies going into dividends instead of service.
Raymond Anderson, SnodlandMore jobs, not profit.
Julia Burns, CardiffThings were so much better under BR.
Tom Baines, OrmskirkI get trains around four times a week. Never has a train been on time.
Pavel Bogatinov, LondonWelcome to SW Trains – your favourite overcrowded and delayed transport from Hell.
David Ventress, AlsagerEast Coast trains – nationalised and making a profit – need we say more?
Anthony Levchenko-Scott, Palmerston NorthI want BR back.
Jean-Ann Gascoigne, YorkIsn’t it obvious that privatisation is rubbish? The only rail line that is in profit and running trains on time is the only one that hasn’t been privatised, i.e. East Coast.
Brian Alston, MaidstoneThe country needs an efficient integrated railway system to facilitate economic growth.