Scrump, it is entirely relevant that Road travel is much more dangerous than Rail travel. Let us make a few assumptions:

1. Nothing can ever be absolutely safe.

2. There is not an infinite amount of money to make the transport network safer.

3. A life saved is of equal worth regardless of location.


The measures needed to reduce the low number of deaths on the railways would cost a fortune. The same amount spent elsewhere would save more lives. It's not quite that simple, as alot of the measures to improve safety would also help to improve speed, efficiency and reliability....


Personally, I think the utter mess made of the railways was the worst action of the entire 18 years of the Thatcher-Major years. They made things worse, unlike other decades of other governments who merely did nothing with transport.