If the trains are diesel/electric then surely they could have a pickup to collect electricity from the wire/third rail, where I live there is a railway line which for half of its way is diesel, but the other half is electric (it joins to an electric one) why doesn’t this train use both sources? (It’s the Uckfield – London Bridge Line). I have seen it on French, Dutch, German and Czech railways. Surely the cost of diesel is higher than electricity?
I mean a train using diesel as a fuel EVEN THOUGH it is on a track with electrical pickup avaliable
and that the train is a diesel/electric one; so it uses electric current anyway, apparently the trains on the railway line near to me are "Turbostar"
The track does about 30 miles on electric and about 30 on diesel track; it goes right into the centre of London (thorugh residential areas) so wouldn't it be enviromentally, economically and aetheticlaly better for the train to use electric when in an electric area?
2006-12-29
10:27:11
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prof. Jack
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