Retirement
The 253 series trains were gradually replaced on Narita Express services from October 2009 by new E259 series EMUs, with the last trains operating until 30 June 2010. Most trains were subsequently withdrawn and scrapped, but two 6-car sets, Ne201 and Ne202, were converted in late 2010 to become 253-1000 series (see below), and two 3-car sets, Ne107 and Ne108, were sold to the Nagano Electric Railway (see below).
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
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