This is a topic that has been discussed many, many time in the IET Railway Technical Network Executive Committee meetings, with lots of different views and opinions on what is needed and how it could work. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
Why electrify with all overhead gantry and cables construction problems and costs, the summer droopy cables problems and pantographs tearing them down, ice on cables in winter, cables being stolen, cables being damaged in severe weather, trains stranded with power outages/problems, long line losses and inefficiencies, etc?
Why not just use hydrogen trains that only need refuelling points at strategic points along the routes?
Why electrify with all overhead gantry and cables construction problems and costs, the summer droopy cables problems and pantographs tearing them down, ice on cables in winter, cables being stolen, cables being damaged in severe weather, trains stranded with power outages/problems, long line losses and inefficiencies, etc?
Why not just use hydrogen trains that only need refuelling points at strategic points along the routes?
