Rail Freight Group launches manifesto to boost UK transport sustainability
The Rail Freight Group unveils a new manifesto aimed at enhancing sustainability and economic efficiency through expanded rail freight initiatives across Great Britain.
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The Rail Freight Group unveils a new manifesto aimed at enhancing sustainability and economic efficiency through expanded rail freight initiatives across Great Britain.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released data outlining the lowest level of emissions, on record, across Great Britain’s railway network during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new high-speed line will enable more freight to travel by rail, reducing carbon emissions from transport as each freight train removes up to 76 lorries from the roads.
Stephen Brookes MBE, states how the new ORR protocol will go a long way in assuring disabled people that their needs are being properly understood and delivered.
Passengers are being encouraged to ‘Sip, Save and Recycle’ in a bid to make stations greener.
The tunnel, which resembles an airport scanner, works by spraying a person for up to five seconds as they walk through it with a dry, odourless sanitiser, which is proven to disable viruses like COVID-19.
Biomass fuel arrives by rail to Yorkshire’s Drax power station, Royal Mail post goes by rail between London and Glasgow, and petrol for West Midlands arrives by rail from Humberside.