The University of Birmingham has a department dedicated to railways which has just won a national award for its work into railways and how to make them faster but safer
Reading Christian Wolmar’s article:‘Rail’s dirty secret’, recalled last year’s questionon this site: ‘How many lungs and hearts will be damaged by air pollution before action is taken?’
There is concern about the levels of diesel-generated air-pollution on Grand Central (New Street) platforms experienced by travellers like Professor Rex Harris (Birmingham) whose work includes the promotion of a hydrogen fuelled transport system for rail and waterways.
Professor Thorne’s student monitoring air pollutants at Grand Central
Research conducted by Professor John Thorne (Birmingham) found almost seven times the annual average EU limit of particulate matter on one platform.
The TV programme Dispatches then visited New Street Station with its own monitors and found “high levels of nitrogen dioxide and particulates on one of the platforms… way above EU annual limits”. Network Rail told the programme it wanted the station to be a “safe and healthy environment” and that…
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keithbracey 
Let’s hope that the #UniversityofBirmingham’s railways team can sort out this pollution problem at Grand Central….