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Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)

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The Ottoman trunk railway of European Turkey, and the piece of infrastructure without which there is no Orient Express. On 17 April 1869 the Porte granted Baron Maurice de Hirsch a concession to build roughly 2,500 km of main and branch lines connecting Constantinople with Vienna, the state guaranteeing a fixed payment per completed kilometre. Construction began in January 1870 simultaneously at Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin. Renegotiation under a new grand vizier in 1871 cut the programme back, and the Vienna–Constantinople link was not finished until 1883 — the same year Wagons-Lits put its first through carriages on it. The luxury train is the tenant; this is the building.

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  1. Story
  2. The Ottoman trunk railway of European Turkey, and the piece of infrastructure without which there is no Orient Express. On 17 April 1869 the Porte granted Baron Maurice de Hirsch a concession to build roughly 2,500 km of main and branch lines connecting Constantinople with Vienna, the state guaranteeing a fixed payment per completed kilometre. Construction began in January 1870 simultaneously at Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin. Renegotiation under a new grand vizier in 1871 cut the programme back, and the Vienna–Constantinople link was not finished until 1883 — the same year Wagons-Lits put its first through carriages on it. The luxury train is the tenant; this is the building.
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  4. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  5. The Balkans
  6. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
  7. Connections
  8. Orient Express
  9. Baron Maurice de Hirsch
  10. The Balkans
  11. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  12. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
  13. Sirkeci Terminal opens as the European terminus at Constantinople
  14. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  15. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  16. Orient Express
  17. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  18. The Ottoman Porte grants Hirsch the Constantinople–Vienna railway concession
  19. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
  20. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
  21. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
  22. Evidence
  23. Supports the 17 April 1869 Ottoman concession to Baron Maurice de Hirsch for c. 2,500 km of line linking Constantinople and Vienna, the 1870 founding of the Chemins de fer Orientaux, simultaneous construction starts at Constantinople, Dedeağaç, Salonica and Dobrljin in January 1870, and the 1871 renegotiation. V55 verification basis: an independent documented history rather than an archive; substance carried in attributed search results, PDF not retrieved.
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