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    Trumps peace board after train attack

    Presumably you're referring to this Russian attack on a train in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/russian-drone-strike-on-ukrainian-passenger-train-kills-five
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    Older cars you have seen

    That sounds like Serck plates. https://www.flickr.com/groups/serck/pool/
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    Technical info on EP20 pantographs (AX023BULT / AX024BMLT, Alstom)

    A quick Google search suggests that both the AX023BULT and the AX024BMLT are unique to the EP20. All the pages mentioning them are in Russian.
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    Train derailment near Córdoba, Spain

    The inter-car coupler on the ETR 400 is an automatic coupler with a prong, a bit like a Scharfenberg or Shibata coupler but smaller. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:InnoTrans_2024,_Berlin_(P1200551).jpg
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    DB Cargo UK Owned Class 66 Question.

    Grup Feroviar Roman in Romania will buy 25 Class 66s from DB Cargo UK. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/db-class-66s-sold-to-gfr.297544/
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    Trivia: List of international railway border crossing oddities.

    South Tyrol was part of Austria but was annexed by Italy in 1918. Mussolini began forced Italianisation in 1922, including measures to encourage Italians to settle in South Tyrol. After the Second World War South Tyrol remained part of Italy but became officially bilingual and, later, an...
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    Free day in Prague next Saturday, anything interesting rail wise?

    The Prague metro still uses modernised type 81-71M trains. No unmodernised trains run in regular service, but there are two heritage trains operated on special occasions, one unmodernised type 81-71 and one of the type Ečs, the original trains of the Prague metro. .
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    Thailand Incident - Crane collapses onto train

    Not only that but the same company "was responsible for the construction of a Bangkok skyscraper that collapsed last March during an earthquake, when no other buildings in the city fell".
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    DLR B23 Stock (CAF Inneo)

    Could the B23s being longer be part of the problem?
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    Free day in Prague next Saturday, anything interesting rail wise?

    Here's a thread from last year about day trips from Prague. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/prague-weekday-trip.284875/
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    Trivia: List of international railway border crossing oddities.

    Chelm and Przemyśl in Poland are served by Ukrainian trains on 1520mm broad gauge. Chop, Uzhhorod and and Mukachevo in Ukraine are served by standard gauge trains. The standard gauge line was extended from Chop to Uzhhorod last year.
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    Thailand Incident - Crane collapses onto train

    From the fleet number 2521 seen in the BBC video it can be identified as an APD.20 class DMU built by Daewoo Heavy Industries in 1995.
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    TAZARA through service resumes between Zambia and Tanzania

    A service between Annaba in Algeria and Tunis in Tunisia was reinstated in 2024. https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm
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    Russian Railways (RZD) close to financial collapse

    The Armenian government has soured on Russia because Putin didn't do anything to stop Azerbaijan storming Nagorno-Karabalh and driving the Areminians out. The railway concession lasts until 2038, so the Armenian government probably wants to terminate it early. If South Caucasus Railway had to...
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    Older cars you have seen

    It looks to me like a Rascal. The Midi was a rebadged Isuzu Fargo. The Rascal and Midi were both made in Luton.
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    Russian Railways (RZD) close to financial collapse

    They wouldn't even need to establish a new organisation. The Railway Troops have been around since 1851. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Railway_Troops
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    New Zealand Mark 2s

    This video suggests that the sheet metal of the bodysides was replaced. Not explained in the video is the fact that the "refurbished" bogies did not, of course, come from the Mk2s.
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    New Zealand Mark 2s

    There's a new video about the Mark 2s in New Zealand. I haven't watched it yet.
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    Privately owned classic loco still being worked daily on German railways by owner/driver - Really interesting

    The correct link for the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Class_V_169

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