Quarry shunting loco to be converted to battery power

UK: Positive Traction has been awarded an order to rebuild a Class 08 diesel shunter used by Heidelberg Materials at Whatley Quarry into an 08e zero-emission battery locomotive.

This follows two weeks of trials with the prototype 08e loco at the quarry in October.

The production loco will be based on 60-year old loco 08296 from the aggregates supplier’s existing fleet.

The prototype has two 88 kWh ‘PT Powerpod’ modules with lithi…