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The Sun, an extremely reliable source of railway information reports:
A comment from a train fireman follows:Scientists have worked out how to turn human, and food, waste into synthetic coal to replace fossil fuels on locos.
The “biocoal” is produced by pressurising sewage under water at 250°C before condensing it into solid lumps.
The smokeless alternative was successfully tested on a line in West Yorks and may be adopted by the Heritage Railways Association.
How do you pre-heat the biocoal? With an ordinary coal fire, I presumeshovelling the biocoal involved a completely different technique. He said: “You’ve got to make sure you get it really hot to start with.”