It’s also set to see financial energy savings of £1.7m each year with the new technology

A Japanese railway company has ensured all its lines and operations are powered using renewable electricity – in a first for the country

It marks the UK government’s largest ever sustainable civil infrastructure deal

The British operator of rail infrastructure has unveiled the ‘UK’s first’ recycled plastic railway sleepers

The area will become home of new hydrogen trains supported by new production facilities

The train, which is claimed to have ‘net negative’ emissions and does not require charging from the grid, is set to replace diesel trains

Riding Sunbeams has landed its first commercial funding to power trains in South East England and the Valleys in South Wales with solar energy

Engineers say air source heat pumps could be used to draw warm air from the railway’s tunnels and direct it into households

All electric trains in the Netherlands are now powered by wind energy. This has happened a year earlier than initially anticipated, following an agreement between Dutch national railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) and power firm Eneco to reach this point by January 2018. The companies will continue to work together as part of the decade-long deal they agreed upon two years ago. […]

Four agreements have been signed in India to boost the carbon footprint of its railways and cut costs. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed to increase co-operation between the Ministry of Power (MoP) and the Ministry of Railways (MoR) for electricity and energy conservation. The aim is to share knowledge on developments in the power […]