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The EU06 locomotives were built by English Electric and are "roughly similar to the British Rail Class 83 mechanically". The EU06 design was then the basis for later classes built in Poland.

This page on Railfaneurope.net includes photos of Soviet sleeping cars on Ost-West Express and Moscow-Madrid services. According to the captions the Moscow-Madrid sleeper was a summer service operating from 1990 to 1992, running "via Berlin, Karlsruhe, Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lyons, Toulouse, Irun...

From NHK News:

It was mostly filmed in New South Wales. Central station in Sydney was disguised as Paddington.

There is one partially-electrified route for trolleybuses with batteries (and no other trolleybus routes). The reason for discontinuous electrification is unrelated to visual intrusiveness.

The original 25-series carriages were homegrown, but imported types from Japan and Germany as well as the UK were classified as part of the series, and some features of those models were incorporated into later sub-types made in China. Perhaps 25-series should be thought of more as a standard...

Only the 25Os (for which I can't find any photos) and the 25As have any British design heritage.

They were no doubt designed to meet existing Chinese standards for dimensions and layout, etc, so the bogies would be the only obvious British feature.

(Delurking, hello.) The OP was referring to mainland China, not Taiwan. The Chinese Wikipedia entry for 25 Series passenger carriages (read using Google Translate) says that in 1989 BREL built three prototypes for China as part of a licensing deal for up to 1,500 carriages. These 25O Series...