Flexible solar panels placed on top of steel W-beam guardrails in Holland could be the answer to rider concerns about the safety of some barriers. The solar panels create a smooth top on the guard ...

Sonoma resident Eric Houston and his friend Marco Fucci di Napoli are testing an open question: How fast can a solar-paneled rail car with no onboard energy storage go? Visit www.train.solar to learn ...

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, ...

Authorities uncovered a tunnel outfitted with solar panels, lighting, ventilation and a rail system that could carry illegal immigrants, arms dealers and drug smugglers from Mexico into the United ...

COMMUTERS MAY not have paid them much attention, but a small array of solar panels next to the railway line at Aldershot, a town 50km (30 miles) south-west of London, could herald a greener future for ...

The Department for Transport has announced funding for research projects which could help decarbonize Britain’s railways and generate power from roads and footpaths. Previously explored with limited ...

Europe’s first solar-powered rail tunnel has opened in Belgium. The two-mile-long stretch of track, near Antwerp, has been covered with solar panels that will generate enough energy to power the ...

The installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roof of Blackfriars railway station over the Thames river in central London has started. The railway station will have more than 4,400 solar ...

The National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) is installing solar panels on rooftop spaces along the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS, which is expected to yield 12.5 million units of solar ...

The FS7 Module Rail Project, for Valmont Solar, addresses a critical challenge of designing a mounting rail compatible with First Solar’s Series 7 (FS7) frameless solar panel. Our task has been to ...