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Re: The Future of Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:47:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Didier Enjary wrote:
SNIP
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In France nowadays (and most part of Europe), almost all freight engines are
electric. (thank to a highly available hydroelectricity and nuclear
electricity). It remains of course some diesel engines but they are replaced
for electric ones as they are discontinued.
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Ironically, in the UK, when the (US) Winsconsin Central took over the main
freight operator, EWS, they reduced the use of electric locos, presumably
because they couldn’t get their heads round using electricity to haul trains!
Luckily now that Railion (the freight arm of the German railways there might be
a move the other way.
Tim
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| (...) SNIP (...) In France nowadays (and most part of Europe), almost all freight engines are electric. (thank to a highly available hydroelectricity and nuclear electricity). It remains of course some diesel engines but they are replaced for (...) (17 years ago, 2-Oct-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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