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Riding the solar railway

How to make train journeys greener using the power of the sun.

Can you make the railways greener by powering trains with energy from the sun? We hear about the pioneering train in Australia that鈥檚 run entirely on solar power. Plus we visit the solar farm that鈥檚 plugged directly into a railway in Britain and hear about Indian Railways鈥� big plan for converting to renewable power.

Produced and presented by Richard Kenny

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23 minutes

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Tue 24 Nov 2020 23:06GMT
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    麻豆社 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa

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