Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
GWR took their battery train out on an overnight trip to attempt to travel 200 miles and in doing so, set a new World Record for furthest distance acheived by a battery train.
Their train has been on test now for over a year in real world conditions - cold weather, loaded with passengers, higher speeds : but this was just to see how far the battery train could be pushed to set a new distance record.
The Scottish BEMU that Tim mentions : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_BEMU
Railway Performance Society : railperf.org.uk
CORRECTIONS
0:32 The fourth label in text box says ‘Reading to Paddington’ when it should be ‘Paddington to Reading’
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GWR took their battery train out on an overnight trip to attempt to travel 200 miles and in doing so, set a new World Record for furthest distance acheived by a battery train.
Their train has been on test now for over a year in real world conditions - cold weather, loaded with passengers, higher speeds : but this was just to see how far the battery train could be pushed to set a new distance record.
The Scottish BEMU that Tim mentions : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_BEMU
Railway Performance Society : railperf.org.uk
CORRECTIONS
0:32 The fourth label in text box says ‘Reading to Paddington’ when it should be ‘Paddington to Reading’
You can join Memberships on this channel to get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UCd18OhMfRmjMjzSHP7Zrzmw/join
