Battery train record breaker caught on camera
A fresh angle caught on camera. A Class 230 battery electric train set speeds through the Warwickshire countryside leaning (GWR) Image Media Centre of GWR
It may not have been a top-secret run, but a battery-powered train has quietly smashed the record for unassisted distance in the UK. Caught on camera in the forests of Warwickshire, a class 230 train test run for Great Western Railways proved the staying power of the unit. The converted and repurposed train, which began life on the London Underground, could be the answer for net-zero transport on secondary routes, where full electrification is uneconomical.
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“Full electrification”, hm…, suboptimal has been, but regrettably devastating, for quality of service rendered, to clients of railways, ware owners, payers.
Now, alternatively, bi- or three, modes, thus a robust power supply, sustainably will make railway, more “equal”!
(Robust, those resilient and redundant, modes handsomely are rewarded, by willingly paying clients – and vice versa.)
Mode, by far stuck at an own, separate infrastructure, finally now is due for Shift, to the New Old railway!