RUSSIA: Vagonremmash has developed a range of retro-styled open-sided coaches for use on tourist and cruise trains.
They have a capacity of 80 passengers, with heated benches, power sockets and bicycle spaces.
Over summer the coaches were used on the steam-hauled Ruskeala Express tourist service between Sortavala and the Ruskeala mountain park, and on the shuttle between Sortavala’s main station and the pier.
They are also being used on the Sochi, Evening Yekaterinburg and Urals Express trains.
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RUSSIA: Uraltransmash has begun delivering trams to St Petersburg which have a retro styling inspired by vehicles which ran in what was then Leningrad from the 1950s and 1960s. The 42 three-section low-floor Type 71-431R Dostoevsky trams ordered in 2022 have a capacity of up to ...
As summer moves into autumn in the northern hemisphere, a debate is beginning over the future of tourism, catalysed in part by the searing heatwaves and wildfires that have been sweeping across much of the planet.
