Hand-written timetable inside ZC (Zoesen Chelto, railway of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) sleeping car Moskva - Pyongyang 
(via Chasan - Tumangan). 
The timings are not the newest and it seems that RZD had not yet told ZC that the train runs via Nishnij Novgorod instead of Jaroslavl since 2001.
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This sleeping car is attached to train no. 2 (Moskva - Vladivostok) twice monthly - on the 11th and 25th. According to the conductors it was 
built in 1983 in the DPRK. I went in this sleeping car from Moskva to Usole-Sibirskoe. As it can only be used with tickets for a cross-border trip, I used a 
City-Star ticket Devinska Nova Ves - Ussuriisk (issued in Slovakia), an additional ticket Ussuriisk - Tumangan and a reservation 
Moskva - Tumangan (both issued in Russia). In the car I was the only passenger with other (Austrian) than DPRK citizenship...
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1wMqNCeG0w
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2006-12-26
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Photo: Helmut Uttenthaler, helmut.uttenthaler@gmx.at