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Old May 7th 15, 03:43 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Does the DLR have regenerative braking?

On Thu, 7 May 2015 16:01:28 +0100
Mike Bristow wrote:
In article ,
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I was wondering this yesterday as I was heading down the hole towards Bank.
If not thats a lot of wasted energy.


Yes, they do. See:
http://developments.dlr.co.uk/enviro...bon-footprint/


Interesting. Whats a "low loss" 3rd rail? Is normal 3rd rail high loss?

The supercapacitors in substations sounds a novel idea.

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