Orient Express - Saddness !

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Great Western

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From: The English Riviera, South Devon, England
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Posted by Great Western on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:55 PM

Indeed. The Venice-Simplon OE is alive and doing well. It is a luxury train and the discontinued remnant just an ordinary affair it seems.

I think the original information was provided by a travel bureau. Smile,Wink, & Grin

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ZephyrOverland

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From: FEC MP334
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Posted by ZephyrOverland on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 2:44 PM

The Paris-Istanbul Orient Express has not run in decades. What the writer is bemoaning is the discontinuance of the final remnant of the Orient Express, which was a Strasbourg-Vienna overnight run. The privately operated Venice-Simplon Orient Express is still running.

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pimanjc

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September 2003
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Orient Express - Saddness !

Posted by pimanjc on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:18 PM

According to the below link, today is the last run of the Orient Express, from Paris to Instanbul. I always had the ambition of taking that route after the wife retires. Saddness, as another historic passenger train bites the dust.

Orient Express demise

JimC.

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