Class 08 shunter rebuilt with battery power completes heavy duty testing

Locomotive 08308 on test

UK: The prototype 08e battery locomotive which Positive Traction has produced by rebuilding a 1950s Class 08 diesel shunter has successfully completed two weeks of trials with Mendip Rail at Heidelberg Materials’ Whatley Quarry in Somerset.

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