Its the same in Bulgaria as well. All major lines that used to be servised by those ware replaced by New Simens Trains (about 10-15 years ago). Those still in sevice ware renigated to small less important regional routes. Btw the fun part is that those are quite strong and can take bad weather. I remember about 7 or 8 years ago (the last big winter in the Balkans), one the Simens trains got boged down in the snow (had to be pulled out by old deasel locomotive), while I do remember strong winters while I was kid in the 90ties and traveling with those old ones -they had no problem plowing thrue everything.

@@mowtow90 that's why Siemens actually worked hard on redesigning the Velaro (Sapsan) and Desiro (Lastochka) projects, you know. Still some of the trains had electrical issues during winter time.