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Our obsession with not electrifying the lines is beyond me. The transport cost is so much less when putting electricity through wires to a moving train compared to filling a train with massive batteries or carrying dino juice.
Batteries make sense as stop gaps for hard to electify areas, tunnels etc where there isn't the headroom to build overhead wires, but I agree in general we should be building out electrication as a priority.