James Sherwood
person
American-born shipping executive, founder of Sea Containers, who from 1977 bought withdrawn Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits carriages across Europe and restored them, spending a reported US$16 million on some thirty-five sleeping, restaurant and Pullman cars. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express he assembled from them made its inaugural London–Venice run on 25 May 1982. He died in 2020. His significance for this Journey is precise and slightly deflating: he demonstrated that the romance of these trains is a reproducible product, and that what could not be reproduced — the alignment — had never gone away.
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- Story
- American-born shipping executive, founder of Sea Containers, who from 1977 bought withdrawn Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits carriages across Europe and restored them, spending a reported US$16 million on some thirty-five sleeping, restaurant and Pullman cars. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express he assembled from them made its inaugural London–Venice run on 25 May 1982. He died in 2020. His significance for this Journey is precise and slightly deflating: he demonstrated that the romance of these trains is a reproducible product, and that what could not be reproduced — the alignment — had never gone away.
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- James Sherwood
- Connections
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
- The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
- Evidence
- Supports Sherwood's purchase of withdrawn Wagons-Lits carriages from 1977, their restoration, and the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express inaugural London–Venice run of 25 May 1982.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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