Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The ...

In the past few years, the railway industry has been willing to at least consider technologies once thought to be unusual or unconventional—autonomous or semi-autonomous freight and passenger trains, ...

Indian Railways has begun experimenting with solar panels on railway tracks, in a first for the country. The initiative was launched at Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) in Varanasi, where a 70-metre ...