Final countdown to TGV Est, deadline: 09/06/2007!!!
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Refurbished sleeping-car of ÖBB (WLABmz-75-71, ex-T2S), seen in the consist of EN 263 "Orient-Express" (Paris Est ---> Wien Westbf).
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At that stage, the Class 15000 on duty since Paris-Est had already left, while the Class 181.2 which was to haul this formation until Stuttgart Hbf, had not yet come.
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Once TGV Est is there, this 124-year old service will be replaced with some Strasburg-Vienna through-cars, joining a CNL service in Southwest Germany.
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Strasbourg.
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21st March 2007. 
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P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)