The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a privately-run train of beautifully-restored 1920s, 30s & 50s coaches, providing a 5-star luxury train experience between London, Paris, Verona & Venice, running roughly once a week from March to November. The journey from London to Venice takes 24 hours and costs £2,365 per person one way.

Poster advertising the winter 1888–1889 timetableOperationTrain length4 to 22 coachesThe Orient Express was a long-distance service created in 1883 by (CIWL).The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variations. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name became synonymous with intrigue. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are and , the original endpoints of the timetabled service. The Orient Express was a showcase of luxury and comfort at a time when travelling was still rough and dangerous.In 1977, the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul.

Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to —since 1991 only to, and in 2001 again shortened to —ran for the last time from Paris on Friday 8 June 2007. After this, the route, still called the 'Orient Express', was shortened to start from instead, occasioned by the inauguration of the which afforded much shorter travel times from Paris to Strasbourg. The new curtailed service left Strasbourg at 22:20 daily, shortly after the arrival of a from Paris, and was attached at to the overnight sleeper service from to Vienna.On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a 'victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines'. The train, a private venture by using original CIWL carriages from the 1920s and 1930s, continues to run from London to and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul. Nba 2k19 install. The first Orient Express in 1883On June 5, 1883, the first Express d'Orient left for. Vienna remained the terminus until October 4, 1883.

The train was officially renamed Orient Express in 1891.The original route, which first ran on October 4, 1883, was from Paris, to in via and Vienna. At Giurgiu, passengers were ferried across the to, to pick up another train to. They then completed their journey to. In 1885, another route began operations, this time reaching Constantinople via rail from Vienna to and, carriage to, and rail again to İstanbul.

WL Orient ExpressIn 1889, the train's eastern terminus became in the, where passengers could take a ship to Constantinople. On June 1, 1889, the first direct train to Constantinople left Paris (Gare de l'Est). Istanbul, known as Constantinople until circa 1930 in English, remained its easternmost stop until 19 May 1977.

The eastern terminus was the by the. Ferry service from piers next to the terminal would take passengers across the to, the terminus of the Asian lines of the.The onset of the in 1914 saw Orient Express services suspended. They resumed at the end of hostilities in 1918, and in 1919 the opening of the allowed the introduction of a more southerly route via,. The service on this route was known as the Simplon Orient Express, and it ran in addition to continuing services on the old route. The contained a clause requiring to accept this train: formerly, Austria allowed international services to pass through Austrian territory (which included Trieste at the time) only if they ran via Vienna. The Simplon Orient Express soon became the most important rail route between Paris and İstanbul.

Badge of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on a car of the Orient ExpressThe 1930s saw the Orient Express services at its most popular, with three parallel services running: the Orient Express, the Simplon Orient Express, and also the Orient Express, which ran via and to Budapest, with sleeper cars running onwards from there to Bucharest. During this time, the Orient Express acquired its reputation for comfort and luxury, carrying sleeping-cars with permanent service and restaurant cars known for the quality of their., and the in general patronized it. Each of the Orient Express services also incorporated sleeping cars which had run from to Paris, thus extending the service from one end of continental Europe to the other.

WL Golden ArrowThe start of the in 1939 again interrupted the service, which did not resume until 1945. During the war, the German company had run some services on the route through the, but frequently sabotaged the track, forcing a stop to this service.Following the end of the war, normal services resumed except on the Athens leg, where the closure of the border between and the prevented services from running. That border re-opened in 1951, but the closure of the – border from 1951 to 1952 prevented services running to İstanbul during that time. As the fell across Europe, the service continued to run, but increasingly replaced the cars with carriages run by their own railway services. Luggage tagBy 1962, the Orient Express and Orient Express had stopped running, leaving only the Simplon Orient Express. This was replaced in 1962 by a slower service called the Direct Orient Express, which ran daily cars from Paris to Belgrade, and twice weekly services from Paris to İstanbul and Athens.In 1971, the Wagon-Lits company stopped running carriages itself and making revenues from a ticket supplement. Instead, it sold or leased all its carriages to the various national railway companies, but continued to provide staff for the carriages.

1976 saw the withdrawal of the Paris–Athens direct service, and in 1977, the Direct Orient Express was withdrawn completely, with the last Paris–İstanbul service running on May 19 of that year.The withdrawal of the Direct Orient Express was thought by many to signal the end of the Orient Express as a whole, but in fact a service under this name continued to run from Paris to as before (via Strasbourg, Munich, and Budapest). However, a through sleeping car from Paris to Bucharest — and even eastwards from Vienna — was only operated until 1982, and also a through seating car was only operated seasonally. This meant, that Paris–Budapest and Vienna–Bucharest coaches were running overlapped, so a journey was only possible with changing carriages — despite the unchanged name and numbering of the train. In 1991 the Budapest-Bucharest leg of the train was canceled, the new final station has become Budapest. In the summer season of 1999 and 2000 a sleeping car from Bucharest to Paris reappeared twice a week — now operated. This continued until 2001, when the service was cut back to just Paris–, already in quality — but in both cases the coaches were in fact rather attached to a Paris– express.

This service continued daily, listed in the timetables under the name Orient Express, until June 8, 2007.With the opening of the Paris–Strasbourg high speed rail line on June 10, 2007, the Orient Express service was further cut back to Strasbourg–Vienna, departing nightly at 22:20 from Strasbourg, and still bearing the name, but lost the number 262/263 which was owned for decades.The remains of the train had a convenient connection from/to the Strasbourg-Paris, but due to the less flexible prices the changing has become less attractive. In the last years through coaches between Vienna and (continuing first to, then to, and finally — partly from Budapest — to ) were attached. The very last train with the name Orient-Express (now with a hyphen) departed from Vienna on the 10th of December 2009, and one day later from Strasbourg. Venice-Simplon Orient Express in, in 2007The company also offers a similarly themed luxury train in, and called the, and operates other luxury overnight trains in, and.The Pullman Orient Express was established by the CIWL in 1994. This train has only Pullman and dining cars, but no sleepers. It's used for gourmet trips in France. After the legal disputes about the name it was taken over by the and operated since then as Pullman Orient-Express.In, the, formerly the American European Express and later GrandLuxe Express, operated several train sets in charter service between 1989 and 2008.

Orient Express poster CIWL phototheque and historical archives The CIWL archives contain more than 100 years of posters, photos, plans, and communication material that represents a tremendous interest for cultural, academic, or commercial projects. Creators and artists have been hired by CIWL since 1883 in order to create luxury conditions and comfort in travel, as well as a particular graphic style that is now recognized worldwide by its quality. Great efforts have been made to digitalize images (photos, plans, and posters), although vast paper archives remain preserved, waiting to be sorted and classified in the future.As of today, available digital archives consist of more than 250 CIWL posters, 800 PLM posters, and more than 6,000 archive photos, representing probably one of the most extensive poster collections in the world with works dating from the end of the 19th century to the late 1950s. These archives are regularly used for all types of publishing and media projects, all over the world, as well as cultural events (see below: Exhibition). Www.orient-express.eu. ^ Zax, David (1 March 2007).

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