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Roy Hill's battery-electric locomotive unveiled

IRON ore miner Roy Hill has celebrated the unveiling of the first battery-electric locomotive to be deployed in Australia at Wabtec’s development centre in Pennsylvania, US.

The FLXdrive locomotive heading to Roy Hill's Pilbara operations.

The FLXdrive locomotive heading to Roy Hill's Pilbara operations.

Once Wabtec finishes installing the batteries and conducts track testing, the locomotive will start its 17,000km journey to Western Australia's Pilbara. That should happen next year. Roy Hill is...

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