US EditionEfteling's Electric Steam Train Needs a Diesel Engine to Keep Running
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The energy transition has also reached its limits at Efteling. The electric steam train, which the park introduced last year as a sustainable alternative, is now running again with the help of a diesel engine. The locomotive "Aagje," intended as an example of emission-free transport, has proven in practice to be unable to operate entirely without emissions. An Efteling spokesperson confirmed this to the website Looopings.
Jetten Cabinet, CUT IT OFF. Pitch-black smog clouds are gathering over the Land of Laaf. The mission to turn Efteling, the real world, into an emission-free paradise has definitively failed. Last May, the park proudly announced that the first of three steam locomotives, Aagje, would be touring the park fully electric after a complicated operation in England. The other trains were still on a transition waiting list. The whole plan can now be scra…
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