The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train, the route for which has changed considerably in modern times. The first run of The Orient Express was on 4 October 1883. The train travelled from Paris to Giurgiu in Romania, via Munich and Vienna. At Giurgiu, passengers were ferried across the Danube to Ruse in Bulgaria to pick up another train to Varna. From here they completed their journey to Istanbul by ferry. The Orient Express reached the height of its popularity in the 1930s, when three parallel services ran. These included the Orient Express, the Simplon Orient Express, which took a more southerly route via Milan, Venice and Trieste, and also the Arlberg Orient Express, which ran via Zurich and Innsbruck to Budapest, with sleeper cars running onwards from there to Bucharest and Athens.
The duration of Romance on the Orient Express is 1.6 hours.
Minder on the Orient Express was created on 1985-12-25.
The original Orient Express Train is no longer in use. However, there are different trains throughout the world that are known as the Orient Express that are still being used.
Gavin Stamp's Orient Express - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:G
1883
Paris
the Orient Express
Hercule Poirot first interviews the conductor of the train, Pierre Michel, in "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.
The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train, the route for which has changed considerably in modern times. The first run of The Orient Express was on 4 October 1883. The train travelled from Paris to Giurgiu in Romania, via Munich and Vienna. At Giurgiu, passengers were ferried across the Danube to Ruse in Bulgaria to pick up another train to Varna. From here they completed their journey to Istanbul by ferry. The Orient Express reached the height of its popularity in the 1930s, when three parallel services ran. These included the Orient Express, the Simplon Orient Express, which took a more southerly route via Milan, Venice and Trieste, and also the Arlberg Orient Express, which ran via Zurich and Innsbruck to Budapest, with sleeper cars running onwards from there to Bucharest and Athens.
The population of Orient-Express Hotels is 8,400.
He rides the Orient Express.
The duration of Romance on the Orient Express is 1.6 hours.
It is called the Orient Express.
"Murder on the Orient Express" is set in the 1930s, specifically in 1934.
Romance on the Orient Express was created on 1985-03-04.
Venice-Simplon Orient Express was created in 1982.