Tom Heap hears about the challenges decarbonising rail freight and we visit the Sheffield shipping container that’s making jet fuel from thin air – on the Climate Show with Tom Heap.
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we've been using electric freight locomotives since 1950s nothing new..
Should have gone seen what GBRF fright have in planning with the Bi mode deisal/eletrice class 99, Bi mode is the answer here for fright the other cost with eletrice not mentioned in this programe is the last mile (s) shunting in to turminals this adds cost to a eletrice train bi mode solves this and the gaps in network which are bridgable by dual power . the gaps need in filling acton bank is less than a mile the minister talks about Ely fright copasity no eletricfication their and a project bogged down by local NIMBs again. This goverment has stuck to its free market iderology even those it contradicts any national drive for greener cleaner fright out comes the is no National Plain or drive the notion that Hydregen or batteries are the answere is a dead end parth Hydrgen would cut down fright train leanths due to the two wagons of fual and also requires new inforstructure . and batteries have wight and long turm green issues to be adressed ie disposale and sorcing the minrails used in making them so a due fual class 99 with GBRF will i think prove a winner and the gaps in the network can be bridged untill in filled with 25kv wires
Imagine thinking that CO2 is evil…
That rail minister is an absolute melt, as usual the tory party are worthless
There ain't gonna be a country left to do that soon mate
I don't trust a man who wears an Armani business suit under a plastic hard hat and safety overalls on a work site.
Freightliner stopped using these electric locos not long bacj. Electric prices mean they cost more to run than the diesels. They have to run 2 back to back also to pull as much as one diesel.
HS2 should have started up north and worked towards the south, starting in London
simply mean's that was the target from the start.
freightliner could do with class 88 for services out of Felixstowe
Tesco does freight trains from London to near Bedford and back
UK have the worst railways in Europe typically third world services
It is in Germany
The 'rail' minister comes across more as Rishi Sunak's b*tch, trying to make him look good instead of putting the country first.
Not until the unions are under control!
The Milwaukee Road will like to know your location.
This is why it is important to electrify the lines between Nuneaton and Leicester and Syston to Peterborough, electrification goes as far as South Wigston, there are plans in place to upgrade Leicester to quadruple tracks as it was in the late 70s.
My favourite. The
ClownClimate Show. Today Tom is playing Casey Jones.Class 90
I wouldn't like to see the country's industry dependent on the railways, not when the unions are so powerful, we don't have a reliable passenger system why would freight be any different?
why focus on electrification when so little goes by rail? having all of our lorries replaced by trains, even steam trains would be an improvement. All of the money spent on electrification could go towards improving the network and thus more could be transported by train, and that would be better than going by rail. modern diesel locos are so economical and good for the environment, that we really should just use them until we have the rail network up to scratch.
used to be that farmers could take their goods to town and load them onto a train and it could be transported like that, now they have to get a lorry in to take it away. example of this being the Abingdon branch line. the government took over and it became un economical for the farmers to do this and so they stopped, less freight meant less traffic, then less traffic meant it was uneconomical for the line to be kept open, plummeting profits of br and the line was closed. same story in so many places. this is not helping with the environmental crisis we're facing. now the government is focusing on the wring bits because it looks better on them, not because it is actually going to help.
electrification needs to come after more is already going by rail. it is too expensive to bother when we have such a rubbish rail network with too little of our goods and passenger journeys being by road.
sadly people are focusing on the wrong things. focus on getting lorries off the road, not removing small amounts of pollution from what is already the most economical way of transport.
Electrification in the UK is pitiful vs the rest of Europe. Even India, who started on a backfoot, is due to completely electrify 65000km at the end of the year, with dedicated double-stack freight corridors. Aside from climate concerns, electric power has always been known to offer way more efficiency. British Rail engineers would hang their heads in shame to see the level of electrification since they started in the 50s.
Merriman is simply saying a lot and delivering sweet FA. TRU was a precursor to NPR – not part of it which Merriman stated. Another slight of hand to remove much needed investment from the North. North of Handsacre WCML has a two track pinch point. He can spout meaningless words as much as he likes but NEW and added track capacity is needed to four track WCML to Crewe, and indeed Warrington if rail growth isn't to be suppressed (current policy).
1200 miles of new electrification since 2011 is almost solely the delivery of what Labour funded until the Tories started to swing the axe on the programme in 2016 after yet another hapless performance by DfT / Tories constantly flip flopping on scope on hopelessly immature estimates leading to the predictable extra costs once the true price of the scope is known. Indeed the only electrification work in recent years are unused extensions on MML and Transpennine which takes no account of the actual service patterns. Tories! Absolutely good for nothing.
It may help if their was confidence that the greedy train drivers were not on strike at the drop of a hat !
I don't see how the fully electric can be faster than the diesel electric.
That's cap
They both use electric motors for propulsion.
Pointless.The distances involved in the UK make rail freight largely unsuitable.
The £££ destroys the green dream.
Improvements to the Ely Junction and linking Penistone to Hadfield will take all the containers trains from Felixstowe to Manchester Trafford Park off the crowded West Coast Main Line.
Electric Eels Are Susceptible To Catch Cold From Long Durations In Physical Activity besides Bleed Bombs Stoed Away Like Wrath Of Ages. By The Gods We Gotta Go..
Merryman sounds like a Bono clone, lots of enthusiasm but no solid plan, How sad
Bojo
WHAT ABOUT ALL THE LORRY DRIVERS JOBS! Great lets get rid ofj obs and get more people on benefits! Good reporting as usual sky news
EV's are not the future they are more damaging to the environment than normal ice vehicles.
Battery electric locomotives are available to buy right now in North America. No new technology required.
7:25 – Last person I'd trust to talk sense about railways is a politician. One look at the way freight was privatised via 'Sectorisation' shows that best: In the 80s, they divided BR's freight fleet into Sectors that each just dealt with just Coal, or just Containers, or just Aggregates, etc., that weren't allowed to exchange engines to meet fluctuations in demand, the idea being they were somehow replicating 'competing' businesses… Then at privatisation they insisted these be sold off separately to "improve competition", when anyone with a brainstem can see, no, that's just made multiple mini-monopolies over different freight markets that couldn't and didn't compete in any way shape or form!
After much wrangling, the politicians caved in, and DB Schenker (the logistics branch of Germany's state owned railway company, Deutsche Bahn) bought the lot and swiftly re-amalgamated them all into EWS, services immediately improved because locos weren't restricted to hauling 'a' particular cargo so could be used wherever they were actually needed, and then the likes of Freightliner and GBRF came along, so there's now actual competition in the our freight services. Which is how Privatisation should have been planned for in the first place, if indeed it should have even happened at all.
Before that man removed his hat, I thought he was a really young chap. 😂