Newscasts - Battery-powered train sets world record with 200-mile journey

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20/08/2025 22:07

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Description: A battery-powered electric train has set a new world record for the longest journey on a single charge, travelling 200 miles between Reading, London and Oxford. Great Western Railway spokesperson Paul Gentleman called it an "incredible feat."

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Last night, we achieved an incredible feat by breaking the world record for the longest distance traveled by a battery-powered train under a single charge. Now, this basically means a train which doesn't receive any external charging during that run, either from overhead wires or from a third rail. So that's an electric conductor rail that runs between the track.