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Emissions from steam locos: Your views

Improvements needed to a ‘grossly thermally inefficient’ mode of transport

IT WAS inevitable heritage railways would become the target for the attentions of global warming protestors.

The Heritage Railway Association has put up sound arguments for retaining steam operation, citing the benefits to employees, volunteers and for UK tourism.

By comparison, while pressure has been applied to vastly cleaner modern road vehicles, classic older ones are free to emit their

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