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The UK rail freight sector will be diesel free before 2050. That is the headline from the Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy, published by Network Rail in response to a UK government legislative programme. The industry has responded with warnings that action is needed now to meet demanding targets.
Rail industry sources have warned that an ambitious decarbonisation target will not be met, if the UK does not immediately implement a radical rolling programme of infrastructure and traction electrification. Supply chain and freight operators are being challenged to take fossil fuels out of the sector, as part of a wider drive for a zero-carbon economy.
Network Rail report published
In harmony with European legislators, governments in the UK have passed programmes which legally commit the country to a carbon-free future. A year-long study by the UK infrastructure manager Network Rail has just been published, setting out the parameters for the rail industry. Read more
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