Trains: Batteries

(asked on 24th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of the UK rail network are suitable for battery technology powered trains to operate.


Answered by
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Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 1st October 2020

Network Rail has recently published its Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy Interim Programme Business Case (TDNS IPBC), a study to recommend how best to decarbonise Great Britain’s rail network. In TDNS IPBC, Network Rail has recommended that battery train deployment could be considered for deployment across approximately 500 Single Track Miles of Great Britain’s rail infrastructure, in order to decarbonise the railway.

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