Ask A Very Vague Question -

 - And Don't Expect Much Detail In The Answer
As you know, the BBC is the finest broadcasting corporation in Britain, and thus the world (probably the Milky Way Galaxy, too), but on occasion they do put up some rather - let us say, "Problematic", content.  If we can cattle-prod Art into consciousness -

How long is a piece of string?

     This is clearly posted in light of the recent plane crash in Mexico, where - genuine hoorays all round - everyone surived, which is not always the case.  Crashing on take-off or shortly afterwards is extra-specially hazardous, because of the very large amounts of unburnt fuel still aboard; aviation fuel is not to be taken lightly, even if it has a higher ignition temperature than petrol.
     So - how likely are you to survive a plane crash?  That depends on how intact the plane is; if a wing goes absent, your chances are nil; if an engine goes out, that can be accomodated - unless it fell off.  Is there fire?  Because that automatically makes things far more hazardous.  Are you over water?  If so, a slow crash-landing ought to be survivable; at high speed the water is as unforgiving as terra firma.  Art?

Low speed

     An expert in the article states that the closeness of rescue and emergency services is also a critical factor, and then proceeds to embarrass himself by stating that a crash in the middle of the Atlantic is much the same as in the middle of the Sahara, since both are such remote locations.
     Er - no.
     Art?

Relevant data at port

     The thing is, an aircraft is made for cleaving through the air, not bouncing over the briny deeps, and, being considerably denser than water, will eventually sink if it comes down at sea.  From that graphic above you can see the Atlantic bottoms out at 3 miles in places.
     Here an aside.  Lawrence Kusche's excellent work 'Bermuda Triangle: Mystery Solved' goes into an explanation why aircraft that crashed into the Caribbean left no trace.  They usually crashed in storms, broke up on impact, what was left went straight to the bottom, and by the time any rescuers arrived, any floating wreckage had been widely dispersed.

But that doesn't sell books the way this does ...

     It also has to be pointed out that air travel is inherently safer than other forms of transport, most especially the automobile.  After all, they spend years and tens of thousands of pounds training airline pilots and air-traffic controllers; any oaf can (and often does) get into the driver's seat of a car.
     Right!  Time to smear the motley with honey and send it through the mosquito-ridden mangrove swamps!

How Did This Get Under My Radar?
I was perusing threads over on the FB 'Space Opera' site, when someone posted that a live action version of "Cowboy Bebop" was in the process of being made.  People seemed to regard this as a thoroughly good thing, which made your humble scribe curious: what was the original CB?  Art!

The crew

The titular spaceship 'Bebop'

     I'd heard of it, yet never investigated, so Surprise!  It is one of the most highly regarded anime series ever, seen as being highly influential and still critically revered long after it ended.  Who knew!  Certainly not I.
     Reading the background information about CB - a future where all the inhabitable worlds and moons of the Solar System have been colonised - your modest artisan wonders if the critical success of "The Expanse" has made producers think people would lap up a live-action CB?*

Right, I am falling asleep here - a reviving stroll into the fleshpots of Royton ought to blow away the cobwebs.  

 - aaand I'm back.

Trains!
Just imagine, the Zombie Apocalypse is underway, yet your nation is surviving, if not actually thriving.  How are you going to distribute food and medicine, or get troops to where they need to be? or move coal to power stations?

Well, that's quite the question, isn't it?

     Air freight is one answer, but it's expensive, complicated to run and airports are not very numerous.
     Road transport is out; hundreds of thousands of derelict cars block every road and motorway and it would take months just to clear them.
     You can only supply ports and coastal communities by ships, which is a bit unfortunate for the majority of the population who live inland.
     So the obvious answer is - trains.  The Allotment of Eden has a nationwide rail network and scads of trains, including all those passenger ones that are now redundant - who's going to bother commuting to the office when civilisation is on the edge?**
     Away from a station platform, a train is impossible to board, which would stall zombies and potential hijackers; and a train massing three hundred tons when loaded would smash any zombies in it's way to a thin grey gruel.  Fit a snowplough to the front and even the densest zombie horde would fall before the 18:00 from Platform 13.

I didn't create this.
Have I discovered a new zombie trope?

     With the proviso that First Transport are to be kept very far away from running this service; were they to get involved, the whole country would be undead within 48 hours.

What every zombie craves

Finally - 
This will all make sense by the time you read the blurb on Facebook -


That musical chap Zane Lowe x 2.  I couldn't find a picture with his name on it, so I've had to label them myself, which isn't quite cheating, more sort of subjecting the rules to severe elastic stress.




*  Personally, I'd pay good money to see a genetically-enhanced Corgi dog.
**  I would, but then again I am a little odd.