The UK Government has announced plans to phase-out the usage of diesel-only trains by 2040 as part of an initiative to reduce carbon emissions. UK Railway Minister Jo Johnson is expected to make a ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other. Electric ...

Battery trains are at the heart of this article, as Kevin Brundish explores how lithium-metal and thin-film battery tech is ...

A South Western Railway diesel unit in Portsmouth, UK. Credit: Geof Sheppard. Rolling stock asset management company Porterbrook is set to trial new technology to reduce emissions from diesel-powered ...

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A system from national rail operator, British Rail in 1975, used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight ...