The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est

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1. Story
2. Around two dozen passengers leave Paris on the inaugural working, twice weekly, via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest to Giurgiu on the Danube. There the railway stops: passengers ferry across to Ruse, take a second train to Varna on the Black Sea, and complete the journey to Constantinople by steamer. The service is sold as a through journey to the Orient and is, in engineering terms, three journeys with two transfers — which is precisely the gap the next six years of Balkan construction closes.
3. Knowledge
4. Orient Express
5. Paris
6. The Balkans
7. Gare de l'Est, Paris
8. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
9. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
10. Connections
11. Georges Nagelmackers
12. Gare de l'Est, Paris
13. Orient Express
14. Paris
15. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
16. The Balkans
17. Paris
18. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
19. Istanbul
20. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
21. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
22. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
23. Paris
24. The Balkans
25. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
26. Simplon Tunnel
27. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
28. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
29. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
30. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
31. The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable
32. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
33. Orient Express
34. Gare de l'Est, Paris
35. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
36. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
37. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
38. Orient Express
39. Georges Nagelmackers
40. The through sleeping car
41. Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
42. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
43. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
44. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
45. Orient Express
46. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
47. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
48. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
49. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
50. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
51. Evidence
52. Supports the 4 October 1883 first departure from the Gare de l'Est and the service's operation by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. V55 verification basis: the SNCF archives page was returned as a search result and is a railway-archive source, but it was not fetched and the specific wording was not read.
53. Supports the 1883 routing via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest to Giurgiu, with a Danube ferry to Ruse, a second train to Varna and a steamer to Constantinople, and about two dozen passengers on the first departure. V55 verification basis: this routing was carried in an attributed search summary of the article; the page was not fetched, and the passenger count is not traced to a manifest.