First UK biodiesel train launched (BBC News)

[RF News]

Britain's first biodiesel train is being launched as part of an attempt to make rail travel greener.

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[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by RF News

Britain's first biodiesel train is being launched as part of an attempt to make rail travel greener.

Yet another media cockup when covering rail related issues...........
The BBC obviously don't know the difference between a Pendolino and a Voyager.

(If, after reading the BBC article, my comments don't appear to make sense it's because the BBC later changed it to read Voyager)

[locojoe]

Hi John can you explain about the cock up to an old steam man please.
Alan Locojoe.

[swisstrains]

Yes, sorry Alan. Pendolinos are electric trains and Voyagers are diesels. Converting an electric to run on diesel (even biodiesel ) can hardly be described as eco-friendly.

Within minutes of me making my original comments the Virgin Press Office must have contacted the BBC and pointed out their mistake as they have now changed all references (and the photo) in the article from Pendolino to Voyager.

[locojoe]

Thanks John
Cheers Alan Locojoe.

[222007]

I take my hat off to Virgin for this. In this day and age where people are concerned about the enviroment its good to see a company leadinf the way to reduce emissions. Be interesting to see how the trial goes and how long possibly it might be befor 100% bio diesiel is used.

Ps, does this mean the voyager will smell like chip fat lol

[martin adamson]

They still haven't change everything, on the Wales page they show a feature of this using the Pendolino.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/default.stm

[Shed Cat]

Originally Posted by swisstrains

Within minutes of me making my original comments the Virgin Press Office must have contacted the BBC and pointed out their mistake as they have now changed all references (and the photo) in the article from Pendolino to Voyager.

Gosh Do you think the Virgin Press Office reads this site?


The problem is that Bio-Diesel isnt that evironmentally friendly - its just a gimmick.
You need hundeds of acres of intensivly farmed mono-culture rape-seed, with all its petroleum-based fertilsers and pesticides,
plus all the harvesting and transport of the seed and refining in factories - sometimes thousands of miles away.

You would get a better effect by:-
Running fewer trains
Running shorter and lighter trains
Running them more slowly - say 60mph top speed.

[swisstrains]

Originally Posted by 222007

...................Ps, does this mean the voyager will smell like chip fat lol

Probably more like Virgin olive oil

[GWR9600]

Originally Posted by swisstrains

Yet another media cockup when covering rail related issues...........
The BBC obviously don't know the difference between a Pendolino and a Voyager.

(If, after reading the BBC article, my comments don't appear to make sense it's because the BBC later changed it to read Voyager)

Thanks for the bracket bit I was beging to wonder what you were on about. Well at least they recognised their mistake and corrected it.