Environment

The UK’s railway is eliminating carbon. You must have noticed. The government has pledged to get all diesels off the railway by 2040 and...

How many times have we looked at clever innovation and wondered why on earth no one thought of doing it before? Often the...

Guest writer: Simon Meades, Ecolite product manager at Taylor Construction Plant.With the announcement...

There are hundreds of All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPG) formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a...

The 2008 Climate Change Act was the first in the world to make a government legally accountable for delivering its greenhouse gas...

Rail Engineer regularly publishes articles that show the railway is really very high-tech these days. In-cab signalling systems, digital traffic management, remote condition monitoring,...

European Environmental Agency figures show that, per passenger kilometre, rail transport’s CO2 emissions are respectively 28 and 11 per cent of those on road and...

Rolling stock asset management company Porterbrook is working with South Western Railway and vehicle exhaust manufacturer Eminox to fit catalytic converters to hundreds of...

The cutting at Barnehurst, on the Bexleyheath line between Lewisham and Dartford, Kent, reopened on Monday 18 February after being closed for a week.

Government funding of £80 million has been announced to provide a new sea wall at Dawlish that will improve protection both for the railway...

The design of a hydrogen-powered train for the UK market has been unveiled by manufacturer Alstom and rolling stock leasing company Eversholt Rail.The new...

The pressure is on. The sea wall was breached by storms on 4 February and the railway has been washed away.