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On track: advances in UK hydrogen rail

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An expert panel from Vivarail, Birmingham University and Alstom discuss UK developments in hydrogen powered rail transport

In yet another recent example of the growing interest in hydrogen as a low carbon power source, last month (September 2020) saw the mainline debut of HydroFLEX, the UK's first hydrogen fueled train.  With a number of other UK hydrogen rail projects underway, The Engineer asked an expert panel about the current state of the art, and the longer term potential of hydrogen rail.

Dr Stuart Hillmansen - Senior Lecturer, Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, University of Birmingham

Mike Muldoon - Head of Business Development, Alstom UK & Ireland

Alice Gillman – Head of Marketing, Vivarail

Dr Stuart Hillmansen: The Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education have been leading the development of hydrogen-fueled railway vehicle technology over the last decade.  This has included detailed concept design work and modelling, the development of scale demonstrators including the Hydrogen Hero 1/5 scale locomotive, and more recently in partnership with Porterbrook, the HydroFLEX train which has just been approved for mainline applications and run on Network Rail infrastructure.

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