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https://kyivindependent.com/8-injured-as-passenger-train-collides-with-locomotive-in-lviv/ The passenger train is a DR1A DMU. The locomotive is a VL80.

The Elizabeth Line is locked into 1100mm floors as well, unless several decades from now they close the entire Core, raise the trackbed to reduce the platform height and replace the entire fleet at the same time.

Gautrain was built by a consortium including Bombardier, who found it convenient to supply Electrostars. The platforms are designed for level boarding with Electrostars, with a minimal gap between the train and the platform edge. The planners might have taken inspiration from the original 1990s...

A new operating concession has been awarded for the Gautrain network in South Africa, and one of the requirements for the new concessionaire is to introduce eight new trains and refurbish the existing Electrostar fleet. Alstom is part of the winning consortium...

IIRC, EU procurement regulations were written to prohibit "national preference" (considered to be wasteful and anti-competitive), create a level playing field for bidders across the world and prevent the emergence of a European preference propping up uncompetitive companies in the way that...

The gas turbine Turbotrains are gone. The fastest expresses between Cairo and Alexandria are operated by Class 66s hauling Talgo carriages, which have modified suspension raising the floor height to match the Egyptian platform height...

Who would buy them? EVAG in Essen bought the P86 and P89 units because they were still quite young and the price was attractive even including the cost of conversion to overhead power and manual driving. The B07 units are nearly twenty years old now, and I imagine that they would have to work...

The last remaining JR sleeper trains, the Sunrise Izumo (Tokyo-Izumoshi) and Sunrise Seto (Tokyo-Takamatsu), run as a single train between Tokyo and Okayama. Each train is composed of a seven-car 285 series EMU, making a fourteen-car formation on the combined section.

Perhaps they have raised much more money than they were expecting. The original plan was probably to build compartments in used seated coaches, which the prototype demonstrates is possible, but now they have switched to lie-flat seats because they are quicker to install and allow an earlier...

Taking the Tornio-Haparanda train counted as research. It was his first chance to try it since the line reopened in August.

@superalbs has posted a video tour of the Nox prototype car. He seems enthusiastic.

Specifically train 730: https://intertube.eta.st/train/z4gncwndSYib7EZdv5GAkQ

A ramp in the aisle is visible at 0:45 in the video accompanying the Alstom press release.

It's my conjecture. I haven't got a source. First, it would be illogical to spend money on gutting existing couchettes or sleepers when the shortage of night stock is the problem you are trying to solve. Second, the need to start with open seating cars creates an opportunity and perhaps a need...

The unorthodox layouts are driven as much by the need to use seating carriages as by any desire to reimagine night trains. Nox are making a virtue out of a necessity, and they wouldn't have gone in this direction if they had got their hands on couchettes or sleepers. 1790203046 The last IC1s...

That's true for the compartments as well. The carriage Nox are exhibiting is a converted DB IC1 seating car with examples of all their accommodation types. Another Germany company developing sleeping pods to convert existing carriages, Luna Rail, is also exhibiting at InnoTrans. Luna's carriage...

Koncar is a Croatian company. 1790098021 It will be unveiled tomorrow at 11am local time.

IIRC that is how the notoriously unreliable IC4 DMUs in Denmark are handled. Each unit was approved as a separate sub-classs because no two units are entirely identical, and multiple working is only allowed with specific pairings that have been tested.

IIRC the franchise bid included a new PIS for the Desiros.

The perpetrators would consider the risk of harm low. They place objects across the rails to short the track circuit and make the section show as occupied. They then assume that no train will enter the section. The aim is to disrupt rail traffic by forcing trains to stop .