Brigg - having the least frequent weekly passenger service of any line in the UK with only six trains on Saturdays - has played a smaller part than many in a remarkable safety statistic. But we have contributed, none the less.
Rail campaigners are praising an astonishing "run of safety" on Britain's railways, which yesterday (Saturday 23rd February) saw the sixth year in a row without a single passenger fatality in the UK.
"We congratulate the railway industry and its staff for continuing to run a safe railway for passengers," said Bruce Williamson, of the group Railfuture. "There have only been two fatal accidents in the last ten years, the Grayrigg derailment in 2007 in which one person died, and at Ufton Nervet in 2004.
"Of course, one death is one too many, and there is no room for complacency, but it does illustrate how spectacularly safe rail travel is. This is in contrast to the roads where more passengers die on the roads in six hours than have died on Britain's railways in the last six years."
Railfuture is the UK's leading independent organisation campaigning for better rail services for both passengers and freight. http://www.railfuture.org.uk
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