The father of a girl who died at a level crossing said that work being carried out to make crossings safer is "encouraging".
Speaking to Daybreak Chris Bazlington said: "Network Rail still I don't think are there yet, they're doing a lot more than they were before, and that's encouraging.
He added; "These stories which keep coming out are worrying."
A Network Rail spokesperson has responded to calls for an inquiry into the way danger is assessed at level crossings.
– Network Rail spokespersonWe recognise that level crossings can be dangerous which is why over the past two years we have closed over 700 and are investing some £130 million in improvements. By early next year we will have made improvements at some 2,500 of the countrys 6,500 crossings and continue a national public awareness campaign to help educate people about their dangers and how to use them correctly.
The transport union, the TSSA want an inquiry into the way in which level crossing danger is assessed.
Read the full story– BIG BROTHER WATCHThe Government has acted to control surveillance by local councils but this research shows more than ever before public bodies are using private detectives to do their snooping.
The law is at breaking point and public bodies shouldn't be able to dodge the legal checks on them by using private investigators.
It's claimed around 14 bodies, including 10 councils, may have commissioned potentially illegal surveillance.
More than £3.9 million has been spent by public bodies over the last two years to pay private investigators for surveillance work, including snooping on their own staff.
The Department for Transport is among a range of public organisations that have paid private firms to spy on their behalf.
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge MP, has strongly criticised the Department for Transport's handling of the West Coast Main Line competition.
She said that "no single person" had been in charge of the bidding process, and that for a period of three months "there was no single person in charge at all".
– margaret hodge, chair, public accounts committeeThe franchising process was littered with basic errors. The department yet again failed to learn from previous disasters, like the Metronet contract. It failed to heed advice from its lawyers. It failed to respond appropriately to early warning signs that things were going wrong.
Senior management did not have proper oversight of the project. Cuts in staffing and in consultancy budgets contributed to a lack of key skills.
The project suffered from a lack of leadership.
MPs have called for the Department for Transport to "get its house in order" after uncovering "basic errors" in the way it run the West Coast franchise competition.
The department was forced to reverse its decision to award the £5 billion franchise to FirstGroup last October after a legal challenge from rival bidder Virgin Group.
The latest report by the Public Accounts Committee finds that managers had no oversight in the bidding process and failed to respond to early warning signs that things were going wrong.
Committee chair Margaret Hodge said the competition would cost the taxpayer £50 million "at the very least".
A rail boss at the heart of the West Coast Mainline fiasco has criticised the Department for Transport for its lack of “high quality expertise”.
Tony Collins, Chief Executive of Virgin Trains, was speaking for the first time about the breakdown of Britain's rail contract system.
Mr Collins said: "They are complicated bids and it requires lots of specialists who can handle these, and I think it’s a wake up call.
"If you go back to the start of privatisation we had an outfit called OPRAF who led the privatisation process but they were staffed by experts in financing, project management, commercial negotiations, financial modelling etc."
His accusations are part of an ITV Tonight documentary to be broadcast on Thursday October 25 at 7.30pm - just hours before the first official report into the chaos reaches ministers.
