page_title: Parry People Movers
section_title: Earlier trials
hierarchical_section_title: Parry People Movers / Earlier trials
caption_attribution_description: English: Parry People Mover on the Stourbridge Town Branch Line
context_page_description: Parry People Movers Ltd. is a British company manufacturing lightweight trams and railcars that use flywheel energy storage to store energy for traction, allowing electric systems to operate without overhead wires or third rails, and railcars fuelled by small gas, diesel or hydrogen engines.
context_section_description: Prior to entry into commercial service, testing took place on the Severn Valley Railway in March and April 2002 with a PPM50 unit operating between Kidderminster and Bewdley. The Parry flywheel storage technology was tested on the Stourbridge Town Branch Line in the West Midlands in 2006. Since Central Trains had no Sunday service on the branch, the initiative was brought to test a PPM50 model at that time, with a view to replacing the Class 153 single-car Diesel Multiple Unit that previously worked the Branch with a unit with much lower operating costs. The trial lasted for a year.
  Parry People Movers have also been demonstrated on narrow gauge railways (Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, Ffestiniog Railway, Welsh Highland Railway).
caption: Trial on Stourbridge Town Branch Line
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