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Tag: electric

Electric freight trains mothballed due to soaring energy prices

14th October 2021 Shannon Butcher Electric, Freight, News

Rail freight operators have stopped using electric trains and switched to diesel locomotives due to soaring energy prices.

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Rail disruption due to train cracks to last ‘for a number of weeks’

10th May 2021 Sam Hewitt Electric, Industrial, Network, News
Hitachi 800 class train

Disruption to rail services due to cracks in trains is expected to continue for weeks.

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Hitachi Rail to launch UK first long distance battery trains

15th December 2020 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Network, News

Long-distance trains will run on battery power in a UK first, manufacturer Hitachi Rail has announced.

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Crossrail gets £825 million more Government funding

1st December 2020 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News
Elizabeth Line - Crossrail

London’s delayed and over-budget Crossrail project has been given £825 million more Government funding.

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FIRST SHOTTS LINE ELECTRIC

18th March 2019 Sarah Wilkinson News

Freightliner locos No. 86638 and 86627 were the first electric traction to use the newly electrified line between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Shotts when they performed test runs on February 24. First No. 86638 ran

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Throwback to LBSCR becoming wired for power

18th February 2019 Sarah Wilkinson Electric, Features

As early as 1903, the London Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR) began to electrify local routes.

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