Your Views - Bring Back British Rail

Yes, something essential as public transport shouldn’t be in private hands, because this sets the wrong goals. It’s “People before Profit” and not the other way around.

Martina Gross, Berlin, Germany

Re-nationalise and reopen more stations.

Paul Malone, Storrington

Bring back British Rail.

Belinda Wiggs, Sheffield

For many reasons, public safety being one of them, the trains should come back to their rightful home – the public sector.

Hayley Lynch, Luton

With a reintegrated railway system, the bureaucracy could be cut benefiting the normal people in society.

Frank Nicholas Adam

Private companies never have the service at the top of priorities. It’s profits that rule. The divide grows.

Michael Harvey, East Grinstead

Disgusting.

Alex Burt, London

The huge amount of profit that these privatised rail companies make is ridiculous, yet they still put up prices by as much as they can get away with each year.

Peter Horton, Twickenham

This will be the deciding factor of my vote in the next general election.

Joe Romero, Billericay

All privatisation does is create multimillionaires at taxpayers’ expense. Halting direct services because they encroach on other franchise areas is a disgrace.

Edward Moss, Manchester

The greatly increased taxpayer subsidies paid out since privatisation are spent on subsidising shareholders’ pay-outs instead on improving the railways.

Alan Moss, Canterbury

Nearly every European country has its state-owned railway. We should have the same, run for the people not fat cats taking all the profits.

Michael Dunne, Darlington

Bring back British Rail. It makes economic and ecological sense.

Roger Sidaway, Edinburgh

Some rail fares are now just ridiculous and the profits being extracted by management companies should be kept by the people.

Mr. R. J. Aston, Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire

Fairer working times. Working a 13 day stint on a roster is not good for productivity.

Alexia Johnson, Southend

It’s the only solution that makes any sense.

Ellis Lander, London

Bring back British Rail for all.

Jaxx Carter, Wirral

At my local station there are no staff after 11am. The platforms are ill-maintained, railings missing and graffiti and litter everywhere.

James

All essentials, transport, education, health and energy, should be nationally-owned concerns.

Antoinette Sym, London

The state of our privatised railway shames the nation that invented the technology nearly 200 years ago. Nationalisation need not mean inefficient. Let’s do this.

Phil Taylor, Stirling