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Unlike with later third rail EMUs that have been designed for dual voltage and tested under overhead power, no provision was made on the 458s for dual voltage except for the pantograph wells and pan/up down buttons in the cab that were not connected to anything. The 460s didn't even have...

The SR must have considered that as a long term ambition, because part of the concourse would have to be demolished to turn Platform 3 into a through line. It does explain why there is a separate staircase down to Platform 2, as well as the wide staircase from the ticket hall to the concourse...

The new bus is a Switch EiV22. The back door is designed to blend into the body, with only a little window in one of the door leaves. https://www.switchmobilityev.com/switch-eiv22

It's official. CNN: America’s first transcontinental freight railroad is planned after a megamerger

That's correct. In 2010 the incoming Republican governor of Wisconsin cancelled the project they were built for and refused to pay for them. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/01/18/talgos-wisconsin-trains-find-home-in-nigeria/

IIRC Kyiv got rid of bus, trolleybus and tram conductors a few years ago. Now passengers must pay by tapping in cards on readers.

They have guards.

The doors are set to open automatically instead of being opened by passengers, and this seems to have been done as a crude hardware hack that interferes with the alarm. At 1:55 in the third video I posted you can see the doors all open simultaneously and the door close buttons flash red even...

Video of a journey from Ikeja to Agbado by @RailExplorer:

Some videos by @RailExplorer:

The Hankai Tramway in Osaka, Japan still operates trams built in 1928.

There's a short thread on Proxima (now Velvet) from last year: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/proxima-plans-open-access-high-speed-operations-in-france.269206/

This video has clips of the set, including one right at the beginning.

At 22:57 in this Simply Railway video you can see two Cross Country sliding door cars in a siding at Coatzcoalcos, along with other Mk3s and HST power cars. Some sliding door cars were already in FIT livery. The website of Romic, the company that is exporting HSTs to Mexico and Nigeria, shows...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, FlixTrain were reportedly negotiating to buy 230 km/h cars from Russian manufacturer Transmashholding. At that time, the Dunakeszi factory was a joint venture between Transmashholding and Magyar Vagon. In July 2022 Transmashholding sold its stake and Magyar Vagon...

Nox also plan to have some compartments with longitudinal beds. https://www.noxmobility.com/news https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/new-night-train-start-up-nox.287669/ Platskartny cars in former Soviet countries also have a mixture of transverse and longitudinal bunks...

FlixTrain's current rolling stock is leased, so what happens to it when the Talgos arrive will be somebody else's problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlixTrain#Rolling_stock

BYD Auto will start making cars in Szeged, Hungary in 2026. They already have a bus factory in Hungary, in Komárom. IIRC the chassis for BYD/ADL electric buses were built in Hungary.

Perhaps the person who wrote the notice copied the list of extra trains from an internal document and couldn't be bothered to delete the headcodes. The notice for Royal Ascot (17th-20th June) gives the intermediate stops for the additional services, but the notice for 14th June does not...

IIRC the 458s originally had pantograph up/down buttons in the cabs which were not connected to anything. They were removed during the 458/5 conversion process.