The Trans Europ Express, or Trans-Europe Express, is a former international railway service in Europe. At its maximum extent, in 1974, the network comprised 45 trains, connecting 130 different cities.
Read more about Trans Europ Express: Origin, Rolling Stock, Modification of Service, Growth, Contraction and End, List of The TEE Trains
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“The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
—Spanish proverb, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 7, quoted in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, trans by P. Motteux)
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)