Fictive operator, Project Aurora, operates a luxury express that follows the what is known as the silk road, 
where spices and silk made their way into Europe from China. The service depats Copenhagen on a Sunday Night, 
as a result, Project Aurora operates a series of feeder trains all over Europe.<br>
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The Feeder trains, like the Silk Road Express itself, the feeder trains are made up of Luxury carriages, though 
there are no sleeper coaches on the feeder trains.  Apart from the restaurant car, All the coaches on the feeder 
trains are made up of compartmented stock, with the isle being on one side.  The coaches are arranged so that 
the corridors are on alternate sides.  The cabins of the coaches have 4-part openning sections on the windows.  <br> 
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Down the sides of the corridors, there is a hand rail behind the windows (just visible on the image). The first 
car behind the locomotive is a baggage car and cabin for the attendant.  Each of the compartments of the train is 
is decked out with wooden panels and wall lamps, giving the cabins that aire of luxury.  Just like the Silk Road 
service carriages, the interior of each cabin has its own decorations to make them unique.  <br>
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At the head of this feeder service is 2E2 class 203, number 203655.  Even though the Silk Road runs into China, 
taking in Russia and Turkey, Aurora's locomotives are capable of using all the voltages that are encountered on the 
route, but using only one pantograph, rather than the two or three pantographs used on other locomotives such as the 
ES64's used by other operators, such as OBB or DB.<br>
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Mark Wilkes. e-mail: megazone23_uk@hotmail.com