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    What is the experience of train travel in India vs the UK or other countries?

    Your lessons were not wrong.
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    Class 230 units training/introduction on the Borderlands line: updates

    The bogies were replaced, not the motors.
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    Class 230 units training/introduction on the Borderlands line: updates

    Going from memory, the idea was to make use of trains that were available at scrap prices and in good condition for their age. There weren't lots of mainline EMUs surplus when Vivarail started the project, so they accepted the extra hurdle of modifying the D stock for mainline use. Vivarail...
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    What is the experience of train travel in India vs the UK or other countries?

    Loading gauge on broad gauge lines is very generous. Cars are over 3.2 metres wide, so European stock would be inconveniently narrow and passenger capacity would be lower. In any case, Indian Railways factories make thousands of passenger cars every year.
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    International train journey and rolling stock reviews.

    A lot of people on the forum will agree with this video.
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    Class 230 units training/introduction on the Borderlands line: updates

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    Alstom buys Bombardier Transportation

    Perhaps Hyundai Rotem or a Japanese manufacturer will be interested. Hyundai Rotem have won a large order for trams for Warsaw, with a commitment to open an assembly plant in Poland, so they might seize the opportunity to expand further into the European market.
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    Alstom buys Bombardier Transportation

    You could be forgiven for thinking that the Coradia Polyvalent was one of Alstom's crown jewels. https://www.alstom.com/press-releases-news/2020/5/alstom-delivers-300th-coradia-polyvalent-train-produced-reichshoffen
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    [Portugal] Old locomotive will be refurbished back to operation.

    Will they have any work done apart from repainting into CP livery?
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    Your first experience of foreign train travel

    I would imagine that the bookshop sold East German editions of classic literature at low prices (and popular fiction from before the division of the country, such as Karl May's Westerns).
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    Off lease trains that still have some life left in them

    We've got two threads about Gautrain wanting to buy surplus Electrostars. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/south-africas-gautrain-seeks-second-hand-emus-from-the-uk.186724/ https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/could-gautrain-get-electrostars.201687/
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    Off lease trains that still have some life left in them

    They weren't rebuilt from the frame upwards. Allegedly the toilets weren't even cleaned properly.
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    Acela 2 on its way to testing

    The original Acela trains are very heavy because of FRA crashworthiness requirements, and unreliable because of problems caused by their weight.
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    Acela 2 on its way to testing

    The Avelia Liberty wouldn't work as a "foot in the door" for California: Loading gauge is larger than in the UK or continental Europe, with trains 3.2 m wide (roughly the same as in the former USSR, China and the Shinkansen network in Japan).
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    Through the curtain - the cold war years

    As long as the four cars stay together when they are in Romania, they only need to change the couplers at each end of the formation.
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    Through the curtain - the cold war years

    I've read that many East Germans did exactly that, scrapping their Trabis and Wartburgs and buying used cars from West Germany that dealers dumped on the East because they had failed the TÜV inspection. Then the TÜV test was introduced in the former DDR and they found out that their lovely new...
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    Your first experience of foreign train travel

    In fact, ISAP acquired trains built in West Germany as well as the East German Typ G trains. The last East German units were withdrawn in 2004. By the way, the Berlin U-Bahn still operates Typ G trains, although the older sub-types were all scrapped or sold to North Korea.
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    Class 230 units training/introduction on the Borderlands line: updates

    Perhaps someone at Vivarail is a Firefly fan.
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    Your first experience of foreign train travel

    That would be the former I.S.A.P. line (called Hellenic Electric Railways when you visited), now Line 1 of the Athens Metro.
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    Trains with hinged doors

    Weren't interior door handles removed to stop passengers opening doors when the train was moving?

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