Railways: Carbon Emissions
(asked on 6th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate his Department has made of the total carbon emissions produced by the railway system in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 14th September 2023
The most recent data from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) shows that the total CO2 equivalent emissions from the railway (passenger and freight traction) from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 was 2,332 kilotonnes.