For a 400-mile trip from London to Glasgow, the carbon dioxide emissions per passenger travelling by road are 80.2kg, compared with 133.7kg by air and 46.8kg by rail, the report said.
- transport
The Croxley Rail Link could offer substantial improvements in access to the whole Campus site for employees, outpatients and visitors.
Metropolitan trains to serve the Health Campus?
Oyster cards at
Watford Junction
Watford Junction
It would also service the football stadium and West Watford as a whole. It features as a priority in Hertfordshire County Council's Local Transport Plan.
Hertfordshire
bus and train times
bus and train times
Liftshare - car sharing
Transport information from
Carbon Independent
Carbon Independent
There are three different companies running trains from Watford.
Midland Mainline The card can be used on a "pay as you go" basis between Watford and Euston
Southern Railway The card can be used on a "pay as you go" basis for journeys between Watford and Clapham Junction.
London Overground is part of Transport for London. The Oyster card can be used for all payments on trains running on the former Silverlink Metro line between Watford and Euston.
National Rail Student and Senior discounts can be encoded on Oyster cards by taking the discount card and the Oyster card to a London Underground ticket office
In Britain, almost a quarter of annual carbon emissions are from transport, 85% of which is from road traffic.
In a report on sustainable transport, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers highlighted trains as one of the most environmentally benign ways to travel and put forward strategies to wean people away from travelling by car or plane, including extra fuel taxes, congestion charges and more aggressive road pricing.
