Latest revelations:
1) that some of the carriages in the express train had also been in the fatal Southall rail crash a couple of years ago, had been patched up and put into circulation again. Even if this had no direct effect on any deaths this week everyone can see from the television pictures that these trains are as good as travelling in aluminium foil if there is a really big collision.
2) It has been revealed that there are 22 places in Britain during the last 2 years in which trains have gone through red signals. One place 16 times!
Speculation is growing that Railtrack, the rail company privatised under the last Conservative government is going to have its responsibility for monitoring safety removed. Comments from the public appear to favour this, and in line with the Daily Telegraph letter that Carl Remick spotted.
Meanwhile, of course not so intensively as during the Diana mass mourning, piles of flowers accumulate by the bridge overlooking the crash site, a number of them with political messages.
Capitalism is being called to account. While this government has no intention of ending capitalism, it is likely to put it under closer monitoring and to have the overwhelming support of the public in doing so.
Chris Burford
London