The UK’s first superfast-charging train running only on battery power will come into passenger service this weekend – operating a five-mile return route in west London.
Great Western Railway (GWR) will send the converted London Underground train out from 5.30am to cover the full Saturday timetable on the West Ealing to Greenford branch line, four stops and 12 minutes each way, and now carrying up to 273 passengers, should its celebrity stoke up the demand.
