Stephen Dixon, HebburnA key strategic resource that needs government ownership and control with a not-for-profit ethos.
Richard Robinson, ScarboroughThe railways are subsidised, yet profit is made. Surely our public services should be no-for-profit?
George Grace, LiverpoolSerco has been shown time and time over to be unreliable at operating public services and should be stripped of this franchise immediately along with Abellio.
Victor Meldrew, Shoreham-by-SeaThe railways have been messed about since the 90s. Connex and Southern are both awful. BR might not have been great but it was a damn sight better than this.
Michael John Freeman, WellingboroughThe only reason that BR didn’t do better than it did (which was reasonable) was that governments spent less on it than they do now.
Callum Brady, EssexNeed to stop the thieving foreign owned train companies holding commuters to ransom with overpriced fares and a dismal service.
Bob Squires, LutonLet’s have again a system designed for people to use rather than to maximise company profits – it’s called a service not a rip-off.
Raymond Greenwood, BedfordIt may be a step back, but if that’s the only way to make it more user-friendly, and less expensive, then let’s do it.
Lynda Storey, PontefractThe East Coast line works brilliantly. Let’s roll out their model to the rest of the UK.
Alan Marsden, PenrithThis is an idea whose time has come.
Ben Cole, SelbyIt is comical how terrible our public transport is outside London. We are made to look foolish by other European nations.
John Castle, ExeterHaving been an employee of BR then contractor and now Network Rail for 40 plus years, I say bring back BR.
Judith Van Dijkhuizen, CheltenhamSomething that goes across the nation needs to belong to the nation. It was retrograde splitting the railways.
Jacqueline Leighton, DunfermlineI’m sick and tired of my cash going to foreign operators, sick of seeing the service getting worse and sick of the absolutely ridiculous prices they charge for tickets.
Damon Drion, DurhamNo national major utility service should be out of British hands, transport, power, water, national and international security, postal, telecoms etc.
Mick Francis, Welwyn Garden CityIt should never have been privatised in the first place.
Robin Grey, LondonBring back British Rail.
Christina Upton, BeverleyLet’s have a national co-ordinated service with sensible pricing.
Cathy Moss, RedditchRail should be the transport of the future and part of a government environmental public transport strategy – public being the operative word.
Sue Fairweather, DanburyTake a leaf out of the East Coast mainline’s book, taken back into public hands successfully.
Dominic Hipkins, PrestonAny country which can’t run its own rail network effectively has no business telling others how to run their affairs.
Gala Middleton, NewarkEast Coast Trains proved that public ownership works. How ridiculous to then sell it.
Edward Moss, ManchesterAll privatisation does is create multimillionaires at taxpayers’ expense. Halting direct services because they encroach on other franchise areas is a disgrace.
Paul Campbell, DoncasterPrivatisation is not the answer. Nationalisation can only improve things.
David Saitch, CheltenhamWe pay higher fares and the taxpayer pays higher subsidies than it cost to run British Rail. All essential infrastructure should be owned and managed by the British Government.
Ted Bains, South ShieldsThe current system is expensive, confused and dangerously inefficient. It is high time to return it to imperfect but superior public ownership.
Sean Jones, WalesHands off our property. If we say don’t sell then you should not sell. Railways should belong to the British people, not to the Tory elite.
Peter York, SheffieldTransport is for the people not shareholders.
Steve Pilkington, BelperI welcome the chance to add my name to a campaign to return the railways to the public. Let’s run them for the good of the public, not profit for shareholders.
William Dickson, GrangemouthFirst East Coast trains and now Eurostar. What asset will be next?