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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The ...

American Solar Rail (ASR), developer of the innovative Railway Transportation System patent enabling in-transit battery recharging and continuous-motion passenger exchange, has won the 2025 Railway ...

Can you use railway tracks not just to carry trains, but to generate the very electricity that powers them? Well, Switzerland is putting the unusual idea to the test. In a Rs 6.04 crore (585,000 Swiss ...

Swiss startup Sun-Ways inaugurated its railway PV project in April in Neuchatel, Switzerland, after more than two years of planning. Joseph Scuderi, founder of Sun-Ways, tells pv magazine that the ...

Some train track circuits are at the mercy of distant storms on the Sun’s surface, researchers found, which could cause train signals to jump from red to green and vice versa as a result of extreme ...