Tri-mode locomotive project begins to take shape for Rail Operations Group
A little more than a year after signing the contract, the Rail Operations Group project to bring tri-mode mainline freight traction to the UK is stepping forward on the production line. Manufacturers Stadler have finished the first body shell for the initial order of ten designated Class 93 locomotives.
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But of course!
For sake of robustness at railways, redundancy, now urgently has to be provided for, at energy supply of train.
Sudden, unplanned stops, now plaguing ass well Industry as customers, has to be outed from railways!
(Just compare how success story of automobile was based upon the own energy converters, then by petrols, etc., etc.)
Advantage of railways, no longer shall be obstructed, by a technicality!
(Electrification, yes, but a timely!)