British pioneers spark new battery-powered life into centurion shunter
![A historic railway locomotive roundhouse, with a crowd of people walking between two steam locomotives and approaching an electric shunting locomotive rebuilt from a class 08 diesel](https://www.railtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Approaching-08e-SW.jpeg)
Don’t try to tell Positive Traction that there is no future in the most humble of locomotives still at work today. Quite the opposite. The British technological achievers see a long life ahead for the class 08 shunter, and it’s thanks to their radical makeover. What was born a diesel pioneer in the age of steam, is about to become a battery-electric pioneer in the age of digital streaming.
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Sorry to correct you but the shunting locomotive is a pilot the man who works alongside the pilot and not on it is the shunter!!