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    Battery ‘D-Train’ offers greener future

    Nov 12, 2018 3 minutes
    Vivarail
    Vivarail
    Ashley Butlin
    Ashley Butlin

    IT was perhaps fitting that during the week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its report on the effects of global warming and climate change caused by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, largely caused by burning fossil fuels, that Vivarail should launch its battery-powered Class 230 unit at the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway.

    It was also fitting because Scotland was home to Britain’s first battery-powered DMU in the late 1950s when BR developed a two-car battery unit based on Derby Lightweight bodies. Nos. 79998+79999 were

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