Sidetrack

It’s a bug’s lifeVirgin Cross-Country’s highly-successful Voyager DEMU fleet has been found to be carrying some unexpected passengers. A layer of micro-organisms, called a biofilm, frequently forms in the air filters of diesel engines. These microbes are sensitive to their environment, and in the past some strains were killed off ...

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