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It was closed to enable the railway right of way to be redeveloped as part of the Belgrade Waterfront project. Transport experts criticised the closure.

If heavy rail can be included, the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge carries road and rail traffic between Dandong in China and Sinuiju in North Korea. It was built as a road bridge next to the existing railway bridge. However, during the Korean War the US Air Force bombed both bridges on the North...

Rail Business UK article about the delivery of the first unit. https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/first-class-484-arrives-on-the-isle-of-wight/57845.article

You could try asking in the Dubai Metro thread on SkyscraperCity.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I always assumed that the hiss before the doors closed on the D stock was deliberately engineered to serve as a warning sound.

Am I right in thinking that passengers couldn't walk between units before the 458/5 rebuild?

Schönefeld station has been renamed, as mentioned above.

Yes, the P86 trains and the Tyne and Weir trains were both based on the Stadtbahnwagen B standard.

They are standard gauge. I already linked to the Wikipedia entries. (Victoria is Irish broad gauge, but NSW is standard gauge.) It occurs to me that they might be an inexpensive way of obtaining comfortable long distance trains that would attract passengers away from intercity buses, provided...

Looking further afield, the New South Wales Endeavour and Xplorer DMUs will be replaced in a few years.

Outsourcing to Karsan might be an attempt to insulate the order from Brexit-related costs and disruption. Turkey has a customs union with the EU, so it appears that there would be no EU import duty on completed buses but parts made in the UK would be subject to duty in Turkey.

Helmut Uttenthaler (of Vienna-Pyongyang rail odyssey fame) points out in a series of tweets in German that services from China to cities in the Russian Far East would be a more realistic use for a variable gauge high speed train, provided that the Russian government is comfortable with further...

IIRC the SWR corporate identity was developed in a hurry after they won the franchise, because they had not really expected to win. The logo is very similar to that of the South by Southwest festival in Texas (an arrow pointing south-west).

Here's a tweet with a photo.

And six in Gabon. https://www.mainlinediesels.net/index.php?nav=1000171&lang=en

That is what it means in Portuguese railway terminology.

As seen here. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hogwarts_Castle_(7176746109).jpg

Do you mean Warsaw - Minsk - Vilnius?

It's about providing an end to end service.

IIRC the number of Tunnel-approved container wagons is limited, and the owners didn't want them tied up on a long journey to Belarus and back.