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Originally Posted by towny

Actually, there are fewer railway deaths per year since privatisation than there were under British Rail (e.g Clapham Junction, 1988, killed 35 people). And despite private contractors like Jarvis getting the blame for accidents like the Potters Bar crash, let's not forget that the engineers who work for the private contractors, especially the older and more senior ones, all worked for British Rail as well. A fact unions like the RMT and ASLEF are happy for you not to notice.

Yes, the common view nowadays is that the privatised railways are unsafe, which is just untrue. Rail is in fact the safest form of travel, media hype is the reason behind these false preconceptions