or sustainability


passenger operator Renfe, JR East, and Netherlands Railways (NS), among others, have all invested in technology to reduce rolling stock energy consumption and retrained drivers to drive in a more efficient manner. French National Railways (SNCF) has also enacted a 19-step plan to reduce its É800m annual energy bill by 5-10%. Veitch says that these initiatives are certainly a step in the right direction and are producing positive results, but there is still a long way to go. He says that railways are doing well at reducing emissions and noise, but can do more to adopt sustainable technologies and working practices throughout all elements of their operation. “We need to promote the adoption of


efficient rolling stock, and energy efficient operations at stations and in operations,” Veitch says. “We need to push this a


little further than the obvious. The statistics show that there is already a strong belief in this concept across the world, but we need to identify further incentives to push railways to improve.”


Green suppliers With demand for sustainability


increasing, the world’s rolling stock manufacturers and equipment suppliers are playing into this environmental consciousness to the extent that some are even marketing themselves on their own


The roof of the Schoten Rail Tunnel near Antwerp is fitted with 17,820 solar panels over 3.4km, generating 3300MW of electricity a year.


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