I think people need to put it in perspective about train travel.
Details of some of Europe's worst rail accidents in recent years.
15 February 2010: Two trains collide head-on at Halle, south west of the Belgian capital, Brussels, with estimates of the death toll ranging from at least 10 to 25.
29 June 2009: A total of 22 people are killed when a freight train carrying gas explodes and crashes into several homes in the Italian seaside town of Viareggio.
21 February 2009: A train ploughs into a tourist coach on a level crossing near the town of Brezno in Slovakia, killing 11 people on the coach.
8 August 2008: An express train hits a collapsed bridge in the Czech town of Studenka, killing seven people and injuring 70 more, near the north-east border with Poland.
29 February 2008: Nine people die when fire sweeps through an overnight train after erupting in the Bulgarian town of Cherven Bryag.
15 June 2007: Three people die in a head-on crash between cargo and passenger trains in between the towns of Bortigali and Birori in Sardinia.
23 February 2007: One woman dies and 89 are hurt when a Virgin train derails in Cumbria, UK.
4 January 2007: Seven die when a freight train smashes into a truck carrying farm workers at a railway crossing in Hatay province, Turkey.
17 October 2006: Two people are reported killed and around 60 injured when two metro trains collide at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II station in Rome.
11 October 2006: Six people die when a goods train and a passenger train collide in France just south of the border with Luxembourg.
September 2006: A magnetic monorail train collides with a maintenance wagon, killing 23 people, during a test-run near the town of Lathen in Germany.
August 2006: Six people are killed and at least 36 injured in a passenger train derailment in northern Spain.
June 2006: At least 30 people are killed and a dozen hurt in a metro train crash in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia.
January 2006: At least 39 people die and 135 are injured - many of them skiers - when a train plunges down a ravine after its brakes fail in Podgorica, Montenegro.