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The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities. It is currently owned by Belmond . These VSOE services are not to be confused with a regularly scheduled train called the Orient Express , which ran nightly between Paris and Bucharest – in the last years of operation ...
Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits [a] (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃paɲi ɛ̃tɛʁnɑsjɔnal de vaɡɔ̃ li]; transl. "International Sleeping-Car Company") is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury trains with sleepers and dining cars during the late 19th and the 20th centuries, most notably the Orient Express.
[5] [6] After this, the route, still called the Orient Express, was shortened to start from Strasbourg, [7] leaving daily after the arrival of a TGV from Paris. On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate entirely and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines". [8]
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In 2018, Accor began renovation work on 17 CIWL carriages from the defunct Nostalgie Istanbul Orient Express, which date back to the 1920s and 1930s, to create a modern Orient Express. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] Two services will be operated, the Central Europe route (France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechia) and the original route (France, Germany ...
The Orient Express is preparing for its first launch in decades — a luxury sleeper train in Italy. Dubbed La Dolce Vita, the new Orient Express trains will start operating in Spring 2025.
In our travel roundup this week: the burning mountain whose flames never go out, how Antarctica became a hot vacation spot and what to expect from Italy’s first luxury sleeper train.
Elipsos (France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland) France-Spain services discontinued since 2013, one service (Pau Casals) to Switzerland and one (Salvador Dalí) to Italy both ended in 2012, Elipsos operator is now defunct; Orient Express (between London and Istanbul using different routes across mainland Europe)