Railways and Safety.

In a reference to a recent mishap (in which a passenger lost his life), to a mail train on the Home railways, the London “Daily Telegraph” drew attention to the fact that the fatality in question was the first to occur on the railways in a period of six months. On the other hand, there was an average of more than fourteen persons killed on the roads of Great Britain every day during 1927. The “Telegraph” makes the pertinent observation that “if people realised the wonderful safety of the railways, they might use them more.”