Revolution Very Light Rail vehicles get green light for passenger trails

Transport Design International have been awarded contracts by UK railway leasing company Eversholt Rail Ltd to build 3 pre-series battery-powered Revolution Very Light Rail vehicles. This is of the back of 2 years of succesful testing with a battery and diesel hybrid at Ironbridge. Revolution Very Light Rail vehicles are being developed with support from Innovate UK as a lightweight vehicle which would enable the low-cost implementation and operation of passenger services on routes where regular heavy rail operations are not financially viable, such as the many branch lines in the UK closed during the 1960s.