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    PCC-style trams remaining in service in (western) Europe.

    Those were also built by BN and definitely have PCC bogies. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelede_Tram_Lang Google translation of the relevant part:
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    Trivia - reserved tram lines running at the nearside of the carriageway.

    The Woltersdorf tramway in Germany has sections with bidirectional running on one side of the road, which can be seen in the first few minutes of this video.
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    Standard gauge trains in Russian gauge land, and platform-train interface

    Mockava has an island platform with a standard gauge track on one side and a broad gauge track on the other. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verbindung_von_Wilna_nach_Krakau._Umsteigen_in_Mockava.jpg
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    Standard gauge trains in Russian gauge land, and platform-train interface

    1435mm/1520mm dual gauge track is always interlaced. The difference is too small to allow the use of three rails.
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    Eurostar orders new double-deck train fleet

    Alstom will already be doing these modifications for Morocco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelia_Horizon
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    Trivia - reserved tram lines running at the nearside of the carriageway.

    Gutter running is standard on the Pyongyang tramway. Photos of each line on a Japanese site: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3
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    Colas to Reduce Class 56 Usage

    Original video by Ghana Eye on TikTok: Now with containers:
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    Older cars you have seen

    I'm pretty sure that I've seen it several times on the road.
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    [DR Congo] Videos of ex-JR Hokkaido trains in service Kinshasa–Matadi

    One seven-car unit was delivered to the DRC in 2024, but it was misreported in the Congolese media as seven trains. It was originally destined for a new passenger service in Sierra Leone, but that project collapsed and the unit went to the DRC instead. Other KiHa183 units were exported to...
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    Serbian Railways electric locomotives

    Srbija Voz has: 4 x 441-6 15 x 441-7 3 x 444 Srbija Kargo has: 16 x 193 (Vectron) 8 x 441-0 3 x 441-3 2 x 441-4 5 x 441-5 18 x 444 9 x 461 8 x 461-2
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    PCC-style trams remaining in service in (western) Europe.

    The OP specified western Europe.
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    PCC-style trams remaining in service in (western) Europe.

    If more modern-looking trams with PCC-type bogies count, we might be able to include the Charleroi Light Metro. The bogies are hidden by side skirts, but Wikipedia has this hint: Here is a photo of a first generation Manila train showing its PCC bogies...
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    [SE/FI] Updated: Haparanda - Tornio trains funded, expected to start 2026

    There's a specific warning about those services:
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    [SE/FI] Updated: Haparanda - Tornio trains funded, expected to start 2026

    Do VR restaurant cars sell alcohol?
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    Loading gauge of the Metropolitan and East London Lines

    How would the driver evacuate? Are they supposed to use the handrail as a monkey bar to get from the door to the ladder? Are there any staff in the carriages?
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    Yes, I realised that I had remembered it wrongly. Thanks for the correction.
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    IIRC it's a remnant of SWR's plan for metro-style services, which envisaged speeding up boarding with door positions marked on the platform, as in Japan and Hong Kong. Passengers would line up behind Arterio logos on the platform and the ASDO (Automatic Stopping and Door Operation) system would...
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    Through running in Tokyo - how does this work?

    IIRC the planners of the RER studied through-running in Tokyo and adopted the policy of changing crews at border stations.
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    Modern day desert steam trains

    The Hejaz railway in Jordan? (Video shows a steam locomotive hauling a tourist train in Wadi Rum, Jordan.)
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    LeoExpress (Talgo) experience.

    Because the locomotive can't supply the right voltage for the train.

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