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LNER’s new prepare ‘Our Planet’ encouraging sustainable journey, What it’s essential know?
Monday, September 23, 2024
LNER has named a prepare ‘Our Planet’ as a part of its dedication to extra sustainable journey.
Produced by 3M, the livery has been utilized utilizing {a partially} bio-based materials, the primary prepare within the UK rail business to take action.
The launch of the brand new title and livery comes on World Automotive Free Day, Sunday twenty second September 2024, a well timed reminder of LNER and the broader rail business’s key position in encouraging a low carbon economic system.
Knowledge reveals LNER trains produce seven instances much less carbon dioxide emissions than driving and fifteen instances lower than flying**.
LNER has decreased its carbon emissions by 47 per cent because the launch of its fleet of Azuma trains in 2019.
It has additionally introduced its intention to make use of a number of the most environmentally sustainable merchandise and supplies obtainable available on the market to use liveries to future trains, marking one other key milestone in its dedication to turning into a net-zero enterprise by 2045.
Posters highlighting a number of the initiatives that help and promote LNER’s ambitions of being Higher for Folks, Locations and Planet will characteristic contained in the prepare.
They share an perception into the work to minimise waste, enhance round techniques and make each facet of the enterprise as environment friendly as potential.
Warrick Dent, Security & Operations Director and Accountable Enterprise Chair at LNER, stated: “Rail is completely positioned to be on the forefront of low carbon journey within the UK.
With this chance forward, we really feel it’s our duty to remind individuals of the constructive influence they’re making in the event that they take the prepare over different, much less environmentally pleasant, modes of transport.”
“LNER has made a dedication to embed sustainability, equality and simply practices into every thing we do, and we needed to showcase this ethos by discovering another choice to conventional prepare vinyls which might be non-recyclable.
We’re so proud to be testing and trialling {a partially} bio-based product that would considerably enhance the way in which our trains are maintained sooner or later. We welcome ‘Our Planet’ to our fleet.”
Jamie Barker, Head of Rail at Stewart Indicators, the corporate making use of the livery, stated: “Like LNER, we’re dedicated to delivering progressive and sustainable options that minimise the influence on our business and atmosphere.
We’re proud to proceed our long-standing relationship with LNER, working alongside them to ship their superb ‘Our Planet’ wrap.
We are going to proceed to help LNER of their drive to make use of essentially the most sustainable supplies obtainable.”
The brand new livery has been utilized to unit 801204 and shall be discovered serving many locations alongside the LNER’s East Coast route.
