Electrification essential to meet carbon-free target
Apr 16, 2019
3 minutes
By ‘Industry Witness’
Simon Poole
THE overriding Government priority for long-term rail operations in Britain is to eliminate carbon emissions by 2040.
As a first step towards this goal, each of the three dominant rolling stock leasing companies has committed to the conversion of rolling stock to provide prototypes for testing. But industry suppliers believe that reducing the cost of electrification is a more realistic solution.
The favoured new technology is to
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