Replacement for loss-making Corail services: TER 38304 (Metz->Charleville Maizières), running as a substitute for defunct Metz/Strasburg-Lille services.
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While Class 11500 (Z2) EMUs are diagrammed 6 days a week on this service, 3 refurbished Class 4300 (X-4436, X-4364 and X-4384) of SNCF-Action Régionale (TER Champagne-Ardennes) are conversely in use on Sundays, although the whole of this lengthy route is under wires...
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Nouvion.
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13th March 2005.
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Photo by Nicolas Husson (ferrovi-est@wanadoo.fr) (Acknowledgements).
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)