First Dublin DART+ battery-electric multiple-unit

Metro Report International visits Altom's factory at Katowice in Poland to see the first battery-electric multiple-unit for Dublin's DART+ commuter railway electrification and enhancement programme.
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[@Felix-ox1pp]

The train is nice that’s probably the only dart train I’m riding

[@James-ih4gz]

It'll be first battery powered trains in Ireland since the 1930s when the Drumm battery trains we're made by professor Drumm. There was charging place in former Harcourt street station and another charging place in bray was very innovative for the time. The Drumm batteries ran on the Harcourt street line which was closed in 1958 and today parts of it are now used by luas green line

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

It will be good in the next few years when they can extend the DART to Navan - all they need now is a DART underground to the Irish Ferries & Stena Terminals via Dublin Docklands and a connection from the high speed tunnel line under the Irish Sea from Holyhead to Dublin

[@honesty_-no9he]

CATL in China already have batteries that could extend range.