'Batteries included': East Anglia leading a railway revolution with self-charging train

The future of branch-line Britain could rest on what happens in the next few weeks on a 10-mile stretch of track in north-east Essex – because the electric train now standing at Platform 1 is designed to run on batteries as well as mains. The once-an-hour shuttle along the “Mayflower Line” from Manningtree to Harwich has gone all AC/DC.

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