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It is hoped the technology could one day see battery trains in operation across the UK’s approximately 2,000 miles of 80-plus branch lines.

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Tyco 1974-75 catalogue.

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Toy trains. Cover of the Lionel Trains catalog - 1952.

THOMAS FANON MAKING TIME! Here's a little doodle I made the other day. We don't see many electric engines in TTTE so here's a bit of a concept for how I think they're dynamics would be, since britian never really had electric trains on a wide scale until modernization we never really got to see how engines of that type see things, which where mainly in the US and continental europe. "Steam ain't going away kid, we tried that in 1905..."

Electric Locomotives hold a bit off an odd place in the wider social world of the railways. They're almost as old as steam engines, the first beginning operation in 1899 and many of them initially acted similarly to how we see diesels do around steam engines in the show/books. "It's the 20th Century teapot! Electric traction is the future, New York may have been the first to realize how messy and outdated you things are but soon every city and country in the world will follow!" but overtime that kind of mindset went away as the 20th century ground on and those early electrics realized steam wasn't going anywhere I'd imagine later 1920s and 1930s like say a GG1 built types would harbor no ill will towards their steam counterparts. (if I ever see another ttte story set in the northeast and a gg1 is an asshole to a steam engine I am going to SCREAM there are steam engines younger than this thing for crying out loud!)

I would imagine 1950s/60s things would change though. The electric locomotives built in that period shared a lot with the diesels that where replacing steam, in appearance and mechanics. I'd imagine they might ally themselves with diesels but maybe they'd be hostile to both steam engines, steam era electric types, AND diesels. Either way I feel like older electric engines would ally themselves with the steam locos due to already having some comradery with them and facing the same fate of scrap. But to the probable surprise of all parties involved, a lot of those steam era electric locomotives survived way longer than the engines the time they're from is named after, with a lot of examples of things like old boxcab electrics and things like the gg1 lasting into the 1980s, but overall that just made their fate come later than the steam engines they once knew. So yeag electric trens really cool and good consider em in your thomas stuff since it's something i don't see touched on.