Rail showcases environmental potential

 

Getting delegates to COP26: ScotRail’s No 334003 calls at Partick on 14 March 2019 with the 10.37 Edinburgh to Milngavie service. ScotRail services will play a key role in transporting attendees at the climate change conference.
PHILIP SHERRATT

Simply by attending the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, delegates will experience one of rail’s unique environmental benefits – the ability to move large numbers of passengers into major cities quickly and efficiently with the minimum carbon footprint.As a city, Glasgow simply doesn’t have the hotel rooms to accommodate the large number of delegates, others attending, plus representatives from the world’s media – expected to total around 30,000.

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