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I very happy that visitors appreciatie our Dutch trains.

UK: Blackpool, DLR Austria: Vienna Belgium: Antwerp, Brussels, Coast (Kustlijn, NMVB/De Lijn), Charleroi-Vicinal + MLC (SNCV/TEC), Gent Germany: Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Duisburg, Heidelberg. Oberhausen, Potsdam, Woltersdorf Portugal: Lisbon Netherlands: Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam...

That's the Tiergarten memorial, with a Soviet cemetery behind it. It's near the Reichstag. It's still there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Tiergarten). In 1992 Germany took over the maintenance.

And it might be interesting to know that Prorail, the Dutch government organisation responsible for the maintenance of the national railway network infrastructure, makes those cab views easily findable as a layer on the map at SpoorData This page by ProRail offers also a direct link to a page...

In any case, on the Dutch ticket machines it is possible to switch between Dutch and English. see this video on YouTube

In Dutch trains that was / is indeed standard. The train guard doing the announcement of stations with connections for others trains, the driver for the other station stops. Now in the local trains ("Sprinter service") it is done automatic, but sometimes the guard also doing a welcome message or...

Some observations for The Netherlands and Belgium: Netherlands: a minority. In the 1990's automatic announcements were introduced. But there were exceptions: In The Hague (Netherlands) there was (is?) a tram driver very famous for his personal announcements, also giving informations about...

It seems to be Parel station, Bombay, 1867; see https://www.past-india.com/photos-items/duke-of-edinburgh-at-parel-station-bombay-old-print/

That is correct Also the website http://www.fyra.com is now down