>>854193Not only that, but also the EU laws liberalizing the market for public transportation (private companies must have the chance to bid for the service of any line) and therefore making lots of DB rolling stock workless since DB is losing a lot of biddings to new private companies.
Best examples for Germany(all of them are DMUs): class 628.4 (build 1992-1996), 611, 612, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644 (all built 1999ff.) just to name a few. While the 628.4 are already a bit older, but still very usable and efficient in terms of maintenance and costs ( lots of them already retired, but luckily not scrapped yet), the other examples are from partly (612, 640, 641, 643) up to almost completely (644) workless, because the final bidding was either won by another company or the new "traffic contract" given out by the local state say, that new rolling stock must be bought for the local operation (reasons do vary though).
There are several places (mostly huge abandoned freight yards) in Germany, where the DB is collecting rolling stock just because they have no idea where else to put them in service again.
Just to give you an idea what is happening here.
>>858440My jimmies were rustled, when I learned that Manila's Metro is using modified high floor Tatra trams, which where used literally everywhere in the Eastern bloc. From Berlin to Pyongjang (or Manila). Literally EVERYWHERE.
