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From what I've read battery trains are good for about 30 miles between recharging. High charge short overhead rails in certain stations en-route might work.

No problem. Thought others might be interested in it. So sad that it didn't even get off the ground as a project before being grounded. Hopefully it'll get resurrected sometime, here's hoping BTW I've added a link to the full PowerPoint presentation used in the video in my thread starter

Interesting PWI presentation on the CLC Line of Route Upgrade (posted on You Tube on 28 November 2025 on the Permanent Way Institute (PWI) channel), which was recently concluded by a joint group involving Matt McDonald and WSP, which looked at all the options for upgrading the route between...

Out of curiosity, does anyone know whether any consideration was given to adding 3rd rail capability at any time, or would the system be unlikely to cope with the additional energy requirements?

The Class 93 are essentially a derivative of the Class 88 but with a larger diesel engine and some batteries. This format allows them to be used in a very similar fashion to the 88s, allowing them to shunt wagons or coaches into non-electrified sidings etc. which are just off the mainline or...

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Part of an article from the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/05/german-giant-siemens-pitch-make-britains-trains-run-time/

Shouldn't it be mandatory to contact the railway control centre before crossing with such a load. I can't understand why they wouldn't have done so otherwise anyway! Absolutely unbelievable attitude.

There's a quite comprehensive IRSE webinar on this topic at: https://vimeo.com/502110052

OK guys. An EMU it is!

So that motorised axle on the leading passenger car at each end is what renders them as an EMU rather than LHCS?

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Sorry, see my previous reply

But these are only one axle of each end passenger vehicle.

I'm sorry if this has been discussed previously, but, of course, when you try and search using the title you get hundreds of possible threads, none of which seem to fit the bill. My question arises from a discussion I was having on a Facebook group, where it was asserted that a Eurostar e300...