Solar-powered railway scheme steams ahead with £2.5m government grant

Cecilia Keating
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Riding Sunbeams project aims to shuttle power from a community solar plant to the London to Eastbourne railway line

Plans to run a stretch of railway line in southern England on solar power have taken a major step forward, after the social enterprise behind the pioneering project snapped up £2.5m of government funding....

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