At 100 mph a passenger train can't dodge out of danger like a car. But, statistically, you are 200 times safer in the compartment of a British passenger train than you are in a car.
This film, using the few steam trains that remain, recreates the circumstances of past rail accidents - Clayton Tunnel in 1861, Armagh in 1889, Quintinshill in 1915 - and shows how our technical wizardry and high rail-safety record has been bought with the lives of Victorian travellers.
"...it fulfilled all three of the basic obligations of the Corporation's overall duty to inform, educate and entertain" (The Times)
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