Train operating contract to bring a ‘generational change’ to battery traction

GERMANY: The selection of DB Regio for a contract to operate Mittelthüringer Akku-Netz passenger services using battery-electric multiple-units ‘marks the beginning of a generational change in the traction technology used in local rail passenger transport in Thüringen’, according to the Land’s Infrastructure Minister Steffen Schütz.

He said 13% of Thüringen’s local rail services ‘will be decarbonise…