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The Railway Gazette article quoted in post #5 says that the trains will be "second generation ETR400 trainsets". This presumably means enough differences to require certification as a new type. I would guess that the original Bombardier (now Alstom) propulsion package might be replaced with...

The Man in Seat 61 recommends the Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon. https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm

Or perhaps a special edition.

In those clips I think that they were simply using a 6112 to drag a 6111, presumably because a locomotive would need an adaptor for the Scharfenberg coupler. Neither video shows the 6111 powered up.

And they decided to use both.

It may be significant that these two lines are being developed by a private company, part of the Vingroup conglomorate. The main North-South express railway will be built by the Vietnamese government in partnership with China and will be connected to the Chinese high speed rail network.

IIRC prime minister Modi wanted the line to be built as quickly as possible, which meant no deviation from Shinkansen standards (except for modifying the trains to cope with the Indian climate).

The cross-border shuttle to Argentina mentioned in the article is operated with secondhand Wadloper DMUs from the Netherlands, so using Class 150s wouldn't be completely crazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posadas-Encarnaci%C3%B3n_International_Train One of Romic's executives, Claudio Omar...

The Tim Traveller made a video about it in August.

That must be the Cu Na Mara. https://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/gts-15-ginga-ex-cu-na-mara-past-and-present/

Left to themselves SNCF would probably choose Avelia Euroduplex trains (the new TGV Duplex), but they wouldn't take advantage of North American loading gauge, and IIRC the trains would need to cope with high platforms at Gare centrale in Montreal and low platforms at other legacy stations like...

Does that mean 47 couchettes available to rent now and not currently in use?

Jon Worth has written a blog post on the debacle. https://jonworth.eu/a-little-short-term-subsidy-for-this-or-that-route-is-no-way-to-support-night-trains-lessons-from-the-end-of-basel-malmo-before-it-even-started/

Stadler have won the tender. As expected, the design is based on the FLIRT UK. https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/electro-diesel-stadler-flirt-trains-selected-to-renew-dublin-belfast-enterprise-fleet/70100.article

Only the Class 802s were assembled in Italy, and the first Class 800s were built before Hitachi acquired AnsaldoBreda. The only problems that could be "AnsaldoBreda-signed" are build quality issues on the Class 802s, and unfamiliarity with the design could be one of the reasons for those issues.

Nice story, but TEF had chartered the Ostend Spirit from P&O and she would have been returned anyway once TEF was declared bankrupt. Whatever P&O did to welcome the crew, it presumably wasn't in gratitude for returning a valuable ship, because she was scrapped in Turkey in November 2013...

Construction began in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Gabon_Railway

Incidentally, passenger services on the Transgabonais are hauled by Class 66s.

IIRC JR Central have said that once the Chuo Shinkansen (maglev) fully opens end-to-end services on the Tokaido Shinkansen will cease and the line will be split into several regional routes. That suggests that they will have zero interest in through services to the east.

Besides being metre gauge, they are narrower than the Class 22000 (2.75m wide instead of 2.84m). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTM_Class_91