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Transform Scotland research shows rail travel on course to match flights between London and Scotland by 2023, delivering significant CO2 reductions

Growing numbers of people are travelling from London to Edinburgh and Glasgow by train rather than air, helping avoid hundreds of thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions over the past decade, new research...

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