The company I work for, voestalpine Track Solutions Netherlands, has five of the same locomotives. Now all diesel electric powered and three are radio controlled. We now fuel them with HVO100 but are very curious about the hydrogen drive!
Have the railway been approached by Hornby or any other model manufacturers, with a view to creating a version of this prototype. If such a model does get produced, will the SVR get any financial reward out of the venture.....Just asking the questions, many railway followers would love to hear the answers to.
Hard to see what the point of this project is except attracting research funding. Batteries are simpler, cheaper, safer, and greener and there is no more ideal application for them than shunters, which is why battery powered shunters have been used commercially for decades.
@@maly2ts408 I suggest you do some research. Electric powered vehicles, is not the future. In actual fact, it’s pretty archaic - there were electric vehicles in the sixties. Why are people so easily influenced by idiots, namely the ones in Westminster.
The new battery powered shunters out there already on the standard gauge railways aren't fully electric as they are hybrids. The only places battery shunting locomotives have been successful are on the narrow gauge side of things in industrial settings where they can't use combustion due to spark risk or emissions in enclosed areas.
@@bentullett6068 (standard gauge) Battery shunting locos have been around for years. During my apprenticeship at a coal-fired power station in South Wales in the late 60s, I was lucky enough to have a go driving an English Electric battery loco checking the Tare Weight of coal wagons over the weighbridge. I'm sure London Underground will be disappointed to learn that their fleet of battery locos are not successful. Likewise, the Tyne & Wear Metro.
Oh dear God, so have you sorted out the laboratory tight criteria piping to prevent H2 leakage or a reliable sourcing of pressurized H2? Honestly given how much more accessible and affordable LiFEPO4 batteries are now, that would've been the go to option, especially if it could provide bidirectional charging for buildings
Yep, especially when it could run on chip fat with almost no effort, an extra bank of fuel filters and a heater in the tank and it would run happily on while recycling waste
Royal Society propose it as their solution in their work "Large-scale electricity storage" and decarbonisers love it, despite where nearly all of it currently comes from.
Good to hear on update on this vehicle after a long time, loved it.
K4 The Great Marquess 6MT 2-6-0 isn’t coming back onto severn valley railway residents in time yet
Fantastic stuff - lovely to see. Next generation of railway engineers.
The company I work for, voestalpine Track Solutions Netherlands, has five of the same locomotives. Now all diesel electric powered and three are radio controlled. We now fuel them with HVO100 but are very curious about the hydrogen drive!
I've heard they maybe a steam powered 60 on the way and maybe a battery or hydrogen 37. I'm intrigued to see what will be next.
Great stuff
I’ve been to highly so where is that shed is it down the line not ata staion or at one?
It's Kidderminster diesel depot
Have the railway been approached by Hornby or any other model manufacturers, with a view to creating a version of this prototype. If such a model does get produced, will the SVR get any financial reward out of the venture.....Just asking the questions, many railway followers would love to hear the answers to.
What station is the engine sheds at?
Kidderminster
Diesel depot is at Kidderminster, steam shed is at Bridgenorth.
Can you do an update on 82045 please?
You mean 82045.
@terrier_productions ye sorry
If it's just going to be used for shunting why not convert it to run on pneumatic power?
Or battery. Or just mains with a nice long extension lead.
I see a class 58023
Hard to see what the point of this project is except attracting research funding. Batteries are simpler, cheaper, safer, and greener and there is no more ideal application for them than shunters, which is why battery powered shunters have been used commercially for decades.
I think you’ve answered your own question !
Where would we get the hydrogen from to run all these trains , cars , aeroplanes that these people are suggesting
@@maly2ts408
I suggest you do some research.
Electric powered vehicles, is not the future.
In actual fact, it’s pretty archaic - there were electric vehicles in the sixties.
Why are people so easily influenced by idiots, namely the ones in Westminster.
The new battery powered shunters out there already on the standard gauge railways aren't fully electric as they are hybrids. The only places battery shunting locomotives have been successful are on the narrow gauge side of things in industrial settings where they can't use combustion due to spark risk or emissions in enclosed areas.
@@bentullett6068 (standard gauge) Battery shunting locos have been around for years. During my apprenticeship at a coal-fired power station in South Wales in the late 60s, I was lucky enough to have a go driving an English Electric battery loco checking the Tare Weight of coal wagons over the weighbridge.
I'm sure London Underground will be disappointed to learn that their fleet of battery locos are not successful. Likewise, the Tyne & Wear Metro.
Oh dear God, so have you sorted out the laboratory tight criteria piping to prevent H2 leakage or a reliable sourcing of pressurized H2? Honestly given how much more accessible and affordable LiFEPO4 batteries are now, that would've been the go to option, especially if it could provide bidirectional charging for buildings
Why for the love of engineering have you gone down the Hydrogen route, don't you realize the environmental cost of producing that damned stuff
Yep, especially when it could run on chip fat with almost no effort, an extra bank of fuel filters and a heater in the tank and it would run happily on while recycling waste
Royal Society propose it as their solution in their work "Large-scale electricity storage" and decarbonisers love it, despite where nearly all of it currently comes from.
It’s a research tool.
@@22pcirishOur energy policy is designed by tools, certainly.
Simpler and carbon neutral would have been a modern clean diesel engine running on HVO.