Cute, but doesn’t actually work
Travelling by train on Britain’s busiest business routes generates less than half the carbon emissions of a battery electric car, according to detailed analysis from the rail industry.
Certain journeys on the greenest, fullest electric trains produce as little as one-fifteenth of the CO2 per person compared with the footprint of a sole occupancy petrol or diesel car, the data shows.
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) claimed the data is the industry’s most accurate and granular yet, incorporating train types and occupancy, and said it hopes it will allow businesses to make the greenest travel choices.
The train system is an integrated whole. Emissions have to be counted over the whole. After all, sure, we can say that the full train going into Liverpool St at 8 am hsa low per passenger emissions. But that last train out at 11 pm is also necessary to reposition the carriages to come back in the next morning.