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Aldershot

American  
[awl-der-shot] / ˈɔl dərˌʃɒt /

noun

  1. a city in NE Hampshire, in S England, SW of London.

  2. a large military training center there.


Aldershot British  
/ ˈɔːldəˌʃɒt /

noun

  1. a town in S England, in Hampshire: site of a large military camp. Pop: 58 170 (2001)

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Her home in Aldershot had already been searched by police the previous year, in relation to the drugs offences.

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Every day, thousands of passengers heading south west on trains leaving Aldershot station pass a cluster of solar panels nestled by the tracks.

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"On a sunny afternoon, if you are catching a train through Aldershot, a little bit of the energy for that train will come from those solar panels," says Leo Murray, co-founder and chief executive of Riding Sunbeams, a start-up aiming to use renewable energy resources for rail electrification projects.

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Riding Sunbeams built the Aldershot array in 2019 .

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At Aldershot, the track was already electrified – it was a case of plugging solar panels in to that existing system.

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