Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1799arrow-down115
arrow-up1784arrow-down1imageWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldThrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square140fedilink
minus-squareFermionlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38arrow-down2·edit-210 days agoThe headline says worlds first all-electric train rather than worlds first all-battery-powered train. There have been many all-electric trains before. So the headline as written is incorrect.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·10 days agoElectric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes
minus-squareoo1@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 days agoVolk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.
minus-squareLetstakealook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoThat’s a good point, fair enough.
The headline says worlds first all-electric train rather than worlds first all-battery-powered train. There have been many all-electric trains before. So the headline as written is incorrect.
Electric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes
Volk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.
That’s a good point, fair enough.