Roger Morris, HonitonI would use the train, but it is so prohibitively expensive to use, that I go everywhere by car, and have done since it was privatised.
Ulla Vangsgaard, WakefieldReliable, affordable public transport would help save fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse emissions and population stress, and make Great Britain a healthier, happier place.
Gareth William-Philips, PenarthAnd bring back loco-hauled trains while you’re at it.
Mark Ovington, SaltburnA fully-integrated state-owned public transport system is required please.
Alan Currie, MargateThe railways should be affordable for everyone and not a shareholders’ ticket to make money.
John Carr, LiskeardIt’s good that we are the safest railway in the world. Let’s bring some money to increase the number of trains and prices that are affordable to passengers.
William Hall, DerbyThis country needs to be unified. Bring back BR (BR Blue while you’re at it). One solid fare, not 20 companies claiming they’re the cheapest. Rail for the people.
Igor Ryabukhin, LondonIt’s disgraceful that yearly tickets cost more than it costs to run an average car and the trains are late at least 50% of the time.
Peter Fahey, LondonI think re-nationalisation is the only sensible way to deliver a better rail network that works in the interests of the travelling public.
Jamie Richardson, SouthseaThis really needs to happen.
Peter Chester, Saltburn-by-the-SeaRail privatisation had everything to do with deluded ideology and nothing to do with efficiency or public service. That wrong needs to be righted as soon as possible.
Jack Ormrod, LlandudnoBrexit has brought our sovereign country back to its senses. The UK railways privatised some 20 odd years ago have not worked and only Virgin has worked for the elite.
Roger Hole, Hutton RudbyIt seems a very good idea.
Brian Hoey, Houghton-le-SpringI couldn’t agree more. Rail is an essential service that should not be run for private profit and should definitely not be run badly.
Nick Gregory, DeesideWe live in a beautiful country and I want to share it with my kids, but the cost of rail travel is obscene and prohibitive. Let us have our railways back.
Hans Nussbaumer, Teufen, SwitzerlandI live in Switzerland, but it’s sad to see how the country, that innovated the railway, loses the railway system in this ridiculous way.
Robert Dawn, SheffieldStop the money makers ruining our national heritage, the first real railway system in the World.
Patricia Bennett, NorthamptonReturn all privatised services to public ownership.
Glyn Scott, CardiffGovernment subsidies are now much higher than before privatisation. It’s daft. The problem is once politicians start running a railway it tends to go downhill.
Maeve Watson, RotherhamThe railway system should be under public ownership. The East Coast line made a profit that was returned to the public purse, not the greedy profiteers running Britain.
Stuart Francis, CheshuntHorrendous company. Trains are too old, crowded and infrequent. They just want to take our money and invest nothing.
Ronald Davies, WarringtonThe best rail systems are subsidised and not run for private profit.
Shirley Corcoran, LiverpoolWe all knew privatisation was a bad idea so admit it and reverse it.
Paul Rechnitz, LondonPrivatisation of the rail network has been a disaster.
David Oxberry, GatesheadThe railways are run inefficiently and profit is the only motive. We the taxpayers are funding these profits and sustaining these companies.
Richard Rankin, North HumbersideIt’s about time they brought back British Rail and realised that competition is horrible for the passenger.
Killian Kane, ColchesterOur money is not being spent on the rail service and we are forced to use twenty year old trains.
Maggie Harrison, WashingtonI think our rail network would be better and more user-friendly if it was nationalised.
Richard Kemp-Salt, BrightlingseaI quite agree, a not-for-profit set-up for the railway – a proven success with the East Coast railway. Privatisation was a very hurried piece of legislation.
James McArdle, BrightonLiving in Brighton, I have seen first-hand how ridiculously terrible and increasingly expensive beyond belief the rail networks have got in Britain.