MEGA Make Electrification Great Again

摘要

Ashow of hands revealed that every one of the 73 delegates in the room at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) believed electrification is the only sensible future for the railways. Not one supported hydrogen or batteries, for a very good reason. These people can do sums. But while the great engineers of the past look down on us unworthy successors, beyond the wooden doors, and just across the road in Parliament, sums are less popular. Outside, roads are closed and crowd barriers erected, possibly in anticipation of demonstrations against the Government's carbon-boosting rail policy, although they could have been left over from Donald Trump's visit the day before.