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  2. Battery electric multiple unit - Wikipedia

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    Modern battery-electric trains have the ability to operate on both types of track. A number of metro networks around the world have extended electrified metro lines using battery-electric technology, with a number of networks considering the option. From March 2014, passenger battery trains have been in operation in Japan on a number of lines.

  3. Wingrove & Rogers - Wikipedia

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    Pikrose were a long established firm founded by Austin Hopkinson in the 1900s making equipment for the mining industry at their Delta works in Audenshaw, Manchester, and they continued the manufacture of the battery electric locomotives with surviving examples known from 1992 and 1993 - one is preserved at the Apedale Valley Light Railway. In ...

  4. Hybrid train - Wikipedia

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    The first JR Freight Class HD300 shunting locomotive was delivered from Toshiba on 30 March 2010. [12] The new locomotive uses lithium ion batteries, and is designed to reduce exhaust emissions by at least 30% to 40% and noise levels by at least 10 dB compared with existing Class DE10 diesel locomotives. [13] [14]

  5. Electric locomotive - Wikipedia

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    The first electric locomotive built in 1837 was a battery locomotive. It was built by chemist Robert Davidson of Aberdeen in Scotland , and it was powered by galvanic cells (batteries). Another early example was at the Kennecott Copper Mine , McCarthy, Alaska , wherein 1917 the underground haulage ways were widened to enable working by two ...

  6. London Underground battery–electric locomotives - Wikipedia

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    LT battery-electric locomotives at Croxley Tip, 1971. In 1936, the decision was taken to purchase a batch of new battery locomotives, and an order was placed with the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company for nine vehicles, six of which would be fitted with GEC traction control equipment, while the other three would be fitted with ...

  7. Mine railway - Wikipedia

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    This locomotive was eventually successful, but only after the voltage on the trolley system was stabilized. [69] A Siemens and Haske pure storage battery locomotive was in use in a coal mine in Gelsenkirchen (Germany) by 1904. [70] One problem with battery locomotives was battery replacement. This was simplified by use of removable battery boxes.

  8. Brookville Equipment - Wikipedia

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    Individual water-cooled IGBT electronic switches for each traction motor improves rail adhesion. Brookville manufactures equipment used in mining, tunneling, and industrial and switching applications. In 2008, Brookville built its first road switchers for the Metro-North Railroad. The locomotives are given the model designation of BL20-GH.

  9. Eagle-Picher - Wikipedia

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    With its merger with the lead mining company owned by Oliver Picher, it was the second largest producer of lead and zinc products in the world. [1] The company has provided lithium-ion batteries to military aircraft and high altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. EaglePicher also developed the first human-implantable lithium-ion battery.