British pioneers spark new battery-powered life into centurion shunter
Walking into the future. Guests approach the prototype 08e at the launch event in Barrow Hill Roundhouse near Chesterfield in England Image by Simon Walton
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!!