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Hitachi Rail wins new UK contract to build intercity battery trains (www.hitachirail.com)

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[–] Mex@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Batteries make sense as stop gaps for hard to electify areas, tunnels etc where there isn't the headroom to build overhead wires, but I agree in general we should be building out electrication as a priority.

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