Switzerland has just marked a full year of running trains directly over the world's first solar power plant built into an active railway line, and the results have been promising enough that Italy could become the next country to try the same idea. The project, developed by the Swiss start up Sun-Ways, involves 48 specially designed solar panels fitted between the sleepers of a hundred metre stretch of track in the village of Buttes, in the canton of Neuchatel.

Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.

Dopo un test riuscito in Svizzera, le ferrovie solari potrebbero presto diventare una realtà diffusa in tutta Europa.