EU directive threatens Class 66 operators

摘要

A Seemingly innocuous European Union directive threatens to undermine the rail freight industry, warns the Freight Transport Association.rnKnown as the 'Non-Road Mobile Machinery Directive', the new piece of Brussels legislation demands even lower nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions from diesel locomotives. That means a larger cooling system, but there is a major worry that such apparatus will not fit within the smaller British loading gauge.