Ireland is the latest country to board the hydrogen development train after Irish Rail (IÉ) agreed a project with Latvia’s Digas Group to retrofit a class 071 locomotive last month. Digas’ head of business development, Robert Strods, explains the intricacies of the project and the Latvian company’s wider work on sustainable traction to Kevin Smith.
Converting diesel locomotives to sustainable fuels
Ireland is the latest country to board the hydrogen development train after Irish Rail (IÉ) agreed a project with Latvia’s Digas Group to retrofit a class 071 locomotive last month. Digas’ head of business development, Robert Strods, explains the intricacies of the project and the Latvian company’s wider work on sustainable traction to Kevin Smith.
Strods describes the conversion of a GE 36 locomotive operated by Estonia’s Operail to dual-fuel as Digas’ “lighthouse project.”
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