Diane Sullivan, RedhillSouthern Fail. No more price hikes for a disgusting service.
Mark Ross, MansfieldIt was once ours. Profiteers should not get richer by setting extortionate fares and providing a disgraceful service.
Jean Squires, CongletonThe system is too confusing at the moment.
Tim Nixon, Hemel HempsteadWe need a fully nationalised railway.
Ben Huggins, ExeterIt needs doing now. Re-nationalise the lot.
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.
Andrew Britt, BeckenhamClearly we are one of the few countries running a train network in this manner. The experiment hasn’t worked.
Ronald Donnelly, Burgess HillWhy should train profits go to overseas investors and not recycled into the system?
Brian Ardill, CullomptonBritish Rail should never have been privatised.
Alex Bird, CardiffI remember the sandwiches, and clean trains running to time.
Susan Cooper, PlymouthWe need a better, more affordable rail service which will reach many more destinations, so bring back the stations closed by Dr Beeching.
Steve Cobb, AshfordTime for a change. Commuters have increasingly been mugged off by the rail companies and Network Rail for too long.
John Wood, LightwaterPrivatisation did not lead to lower fares and better service as we were promised.
Keith Alcock, LiverpoolNorthwest / Manchester to Liverpool is so awful.
Andrew McIntosh, HebburnWe need this and the utility companies back as the competition route isn’t working.
Guy Woolnough, CarnforthPrivatisation has created an artificial, disjointed market. The ‘profits’ made by operating companies are subsidies. The best run company is in public ownership.
Tim Burton, BristolBBBR.
Rhys Thwaites-Jones, AberystwythThere are no motorways or dual carriageways in our county and the railways are vital. Invest and reinstate the rail link from South Wales to Mid and North Wales.
Simon Anthony, LondonPublic services should be run for public service not private profit.
Sandra Cotterell, Ross-on-WyeToo much of our country has been sold off without consultation with us.
Nick Sadler, BristolPrivatisation has cost the taxpayer far more than BR would have done.
Linda Cieslik, YorkPrivatisation has led to fragmentation of the service. Only the private companies gain, not the tax-paying public – as predicted.
Joan Bimson, SouthportPrivatisation of any sort never benefits the service user, only the greedy shareholders.
Kelvin Cantlon, ChorleywoodTory dogma over common sense. They sold the railway to friends and now they are renting it back to us at extortionate rates. That privatisation is choice is such a con.
Chris Queen, LondonI run walks outside of London. Weekly I buy return Group Tickets at mainline stations run by 9 different franchises, all operating differently. What a nightmare.
Joel Kosminsky, LondonNo transparency, hidden profits, astronomic fares, staff bullied and degraded. That’s privatisation. BR wasn’t brilliant but it was ours, accountable and it worked.
Brendan Glynn, ManchesterStop the rip-off billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money drained off to private companies’ shareholders. Money should stay in railways to cut fares and keep stations open.
Lee Ward, LondonWith the present divisive system there is no co-ordination, only feeble excuses.
Richard Maguire, StockportProfits should be with the taxpayer not private individuals with no risk investments.
Elisabeth Kiener, Reepham, NorfolkRailways are too important to remain in private ownership.