Partnership will see Three host its mobile voice and data equipment on newly deployed Cellnex infrastructure along the entire London to Brighton railway route.
A partnership between Network Rail and Connected Places Catapult will see Bristol Temple Meads become the country’s first station innovation zone, trialling technologies designed to upgrade passenger experience.
The 3.75 MW Cuckmere Community Solar Farm in Berwick, East Sussex, will be built to power the London mainline railway via a ‘private-wire’ direct connection.
It will enable Riding Sunbeams to develop a direct connection between renewable energy generators and electrified rail networks and eventually power a train using green electricity.
If successful, the demonstrator project will prove that solar can safely bypass the grid to provide a direct supply of energy to UK railways’ traction systems.