Georges Nagelmackers

Assembled from 18 blocks · 2 evidence · 17 related

1. Story
2. Belgian engineer and businessman, born in Liège on 25 June 1845 and died at Villepreux, France, on 10 August 1905. He travelled in the United States in 1867–68, was impressed by Pullman's night trains, and on returning founded the sleeping-car business on 1 October 1872 that became the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. What he actually invented was not a carriage but a contractual position: an international operator standing between national railways and the passenger. The Orient Express of 1883 is that idea taken to its limit — a train assembled across five or six administrations, none of which could have run it alone.
3. Knowledge
4. Georges Nagelmackers
5. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
6. Connections
7. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
8. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
9. Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
10. Georges Nagelmackers
11. Gare de l'Est, Paris
12. Orient Express
13. Paris
14. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
15. The Balkans
16. Evidence
17. Supports Nagelmackers' birth at Liège on 25 June 1845, his death at Villepreux on 10 August 1905, his 1867–68 American journey and the founding of the Wagons-Lits company at Liège on 1 October 1872. V55 verification basis: the portal's dated entry and its founding-date headline were carried in attributed search results; the page was not fetched.
18. Supports the founding of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on 1 October 1872 and its sleeping-car operating model. V55 verification basis: the museum dossier appeared in search with its founding date in the document title; the PDF was not retrieved and its contents were not read.