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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 ...
Europe’s most famous train, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, will launch an annual trip from Paris to Portofino, starting in June 2024.
Until 2023, it also served as the British leg of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) service between London and Venice. [1] The train service was founded by James Sherwood of Kentucky, USA, in 1982. It is currently owned by Belmond Ltd. Belmond operates 45 luxury hotels, restaurants, tourist trains and river cruises in 24 countries.
The grand suites on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which travels through Italy and Western Europe, have 24-hour butler service and marble en-suite bathrooms.. Guests occupying these suites are ...
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Over forty years Sherwood expanded Sea Containers from a supplier of leased cargo containers, into various shipping companies, as well as expanding the company into luxury hotels and railway trains, including the Venice-Simplon Orient Express [5] and Great North Eastern Railway that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise. [6]
The 14-road main shed provides a home to the Class 387 electric units of the Gatwick Express, and the Pullman carriages of the Venice Simplon Orient Express (VSOE Southern Division), and is operated by Govia Thameslink Railway. It also acts as a servicing and staging point for steam locomotives operating both the VSOE, and some other special ...
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is only one of many luxurious train rides in the world. Image credits: Ryan Trahan. Image credits: Ryan Trahan.