South Western Railway Completes Trial Of Class 159 Emission Reducing Technology
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Rail Advent.
This is Project 4 called Green Rail Exhaust After Treatment, that I wrote about in Grants To Support Low-Carbon Technology Demonstrators.
I also wrote about the project in SWR And Porterbrook Trial New Emission-Slashing Rail Technology.
This paragraph from the Rail Advent article sums up the results.
In partnership with Porterbrook and Eminox, South Western Railway has trialled a new system that has real-world reductions in pollution from nitrous oxides (NOx) by over 80% and hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulate matter (PM) by over 90%.
The technology appears to have performed well in a six-month trial.
As the proof of the pudding is always in the eating, it will be interesting to see how many systems are installed on the two hundred trains in the closely-related Class 158 and Class 159 train fleets.
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