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If the train carriages look familiar to anyone who's seen the German Democratic Republic's carriages, that's because they're the very same ones. The DPRK took s
by TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
If the train carriages look familiar to anyone who's seen the German Democratic Republic's carriages, that's because they're the very same ones. The DPRK took some of the GDR's old U-Bahn trains.
- iSnow 11y agoActually, North Korea bought subway train carriages that were in use in western berlin as well. I recognize those in the pictures - during my time in university, I used them all the time - in west berlin.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoYeah, there's both former West and East Berlin trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro#Rolling_stock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_Metro#Rolling_stock Which makes sense given they would both run on the same kind of track.
- emodendroket 11y agoIt says that in the article.
- arprocter 11y agoIIRC the last time there was something on here about DPRK overland rail it was said the trains were Swiss