The world’s first solar farm to directly power a railway line is set to plug into the track near Aldershot, paving the way for solar-powered trains.
confused 'about 100 solar panels snip will supply renewable electricity to power the signalling and lights' but later: 'the first time a solar array will bypass the electricity grid to plug directly into a railway’s traction system'. signalling is not traction which is it?
No, not the first...
Why are you showing a picture of Kings Cross? Should be Waterloo, surely?
'About 100 solar panels at the trackside site will supply renewable electricity to power the signalling and lights on Network Rail’s Wessex route.'
Got to get ready for those nasty post-Brexit power cuts!
WTF is Wessex rail?
One would hope that the solar panels will be feeding a battery which has the capacity to store more power than the system uses, a sensible addition to the panels.
sounds good to me
that railway and it's passengers are screwed then
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