On 02/01/2012 20:28, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote:
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IIRC, some of the trains from the East Berlin U-Bahn wound up in
revenue service on the Pyongyang Metro.
http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/
It's the fourth picture down when you click on the photos link.
Actually all rolling stock on the Pyongyang metro is from Berlin, but
there are two different types.
The box shaped ones are G stock, a narrow profile type made in East
Berlin in the 1970s/80s and still in service today:
http://www.berliner-verkehr.de/ufg.htm
Giselas! Yes, I remember riding a couple when I visited Berlin in the
'90s. I remember most vividly the noise they would make when coming to a
halt.
I wonder if any of them are still in revenue service in Pyongyang,
because any videos of the place seem to show only Dorotas.
Admittedly, however, those videos only show Yŏnggwang and Puh*ng, on the
Chŏllima line. I have also seen a contemporary photo of Kaesŏn station,
which is also on the Chŏllima line. But those photos were official and
showed only the Chinese-built stock that they had run.
Perhaps the Giselas are on the Hyŏksin line? I have seen official
pictures of Hwangg*mbŏl and Kŏn'guk, but nothing contemporary or
independently taken.