2024年10月1日 · Enter the Class 230 now undergoing trials on the 2.4-mile-long West Ealing-Greenford branch. Back in early 2022 it was announced that, with funding from the DfT, GWR would operate a trial using a Vivarail ‘230’. The unit, No. 230001, was to be prepared ahead of the trial, however, this was put at risk when Vivarail went bust at the end of 2022.

2024年8月4日 · In this clip we see the unqiue GWR 230001 Battery Unit at Greenford whilst carrying out test runs. It is first seen arriving on 5Q45 West Ealing to Greenford and it is then seen departing back...

2024年3月6日 · GWR Class 230 - 230001 Battery Powered Unit Testing On The Greenford Line Arrives At Castle Bar Park For West Ealing - Tuesday 5th March 2024 © Southernrailw...

2024年3月5日 · Class 230 battery train, developed from former London Undergroun­d D78 Stock, has begun testing, in advance of it entering service for Great Western Railway on the Greenford Branch between West Ealing and Greenford. The first half of February saw 230001 Viva Venturer undertake a series of test runs from Long Marston.

2024年3月15日 · Great Western Railway will formally start a 12-month trial to test battery unit No 230001 and the FastCharge system on the Greenford branch from 18 March. The operator acquired the unit and the FastCharge system, along with spare ‘D’ stock vehicles, after developer Vivarail went into administration, and has taken on some of the former ...

2024年3月27日 · Great Western Railway’s ‘fast-charge’ battery train, 230001, is undergoing a 12-month trial on the Greenford branch in west London, to assess its technology and consider whether it could be used on other lines.

2023年5月3日 · 230001 was revamped underneath with traction batteries and charging gear replacing the Ford diesels. The other two batches af 230 still have the Ford diesels but used in different ways.

2023年4月5日 · GWR was due to launch the trial using battery-powered 230001 earlier this year, but this was subsequently delayed when Vivarail appointed administrators in December. A new date for the start of the trials of the train on the Greenford branch is yet to be announced.

2023年7月18日 · The trial would use No. 230001, then still owned by VR, and which had demonstrat­ed its battery-only technology at the Cop26 event in Glasgow in November 2021. The Department for Transport was to provide £2.15m in funding when the project was announced.

2023年2月26日 · GWR has agreed on contracts to buy intellectual property, rolling stock (including unit 230001) and equipment relating to the development of high-performance battery and FastCharge technology designed to support the wider introduction of battery-powered trains on the UK’s rail network.