Rail Travel and Safety.

In providing cheap travel for the multitude, the Home railways are in no way lowering their standards of safety, speed and comfort. The number of passengers who lost their lives in accidents to trains in 1931 was, eight: less than half the number killed every day on the roads of the country. With 1,186,000,000 passenger journeys made in 1931, the risk of death in train accidents was one in 150,000,000, a striking testimony to the safety of Home railway travel.