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Climate Solutions: Rail

Emissions from passenger and freight rail travel.

  • Passenger trains in the Netherlands will run only on wind power from January 2017 onwards
    Environment
    Dutch passenger trains to run on 100% wind energy
    The 600,000 Dutch that travel daily by train will now do so thanks purely to wind energy, with the national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) announcing that 100 percent of its passenger trains will be powered by the renewable source from January onwards.