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The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run

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A privately assembled train of restored 1920s Wagons-Lits carriages runs from London Victoria to Venice, five years after James Sherwood began buying withdrawn stock. It is a commercial reconstruction, running on ordinary paths over ordinary networks. Its success shows that the train can be rebuilt at will and the route cannot be built at all — the alignment through the Alps was already a century old.

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  1. Story
  2. A privately assembled train of restored 1920s Wagons-Lits carriages runs from London Victoria to Venice, five years after James Sherwood began buying withdrawn stock. It is a commercial reconstruction, running on ordinary paths over ordinary networks. Its success shows that the train can be rebuilt at will and the route cannot be built at all — the alignment through the Alps was already a century old.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  5. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
  6. James Sherwood
  7. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  8. Connections
  9. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  10. James Sherwood
  11. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
  12. James Sherwood
  13. Orient Express
  14. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  15. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  16. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  17. Orient Express
  18. Georges Nagelmackers
  19. The through sleeping car
  20. Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
  21. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
  22. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  23. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
  24. Evidence
  25. Supports Sherwood's purchase of withdrawn Wagons-Lits carriages from 1977, their restoration, and the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express inaugural London–Venice run of 25 May 1982. V55 verification basis: the obituary was returned in search and its substance carried in the summary; the article was not fetched, and the US$16 million and thirty-five-carriage figures come from corroborating secondary accounts rather than from this obituary alone.
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