United Kingdom
Battery electric railcars used by British Rail included the British Rail BEMU and British Rail Class 419. The Class 419 could work either on batteries or a third rail.
Read more about this topic: Accumulator Railcar
Famous quotes containing the words united and/or kingdom:
“United Fruit... United Thieves Company... it’s a monopoly ... if you won’t take their prices they let your limes rot on the wharf; it’s a monopoly. You boys are working for a bunch of thieves, but I know it ain’t your fault.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,—a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,—he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)