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Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

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A privately operated charter train assembled from genuine Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits stock, which is a different thing from a surviving railway service. James Sherwood of Sea Containers began buying withdrawn 1920s carriages in 1977 and spent some US$16 million on around thirty-five sleeping, restaurant and Pullman cars; the restored train made its inaugural London Victoria to Venice run on 25 May 1982. It runs on ordinary commercial paths over ordinary national networks. Its existence is the clearest evidence for this Journey's central point: the carriages, the crew and the timetable slot can all be recreated commercially, because the expensive and irreplaceable thing — the alignment through the Alps and the Balkans — was already there.

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  1. Story
  2. A privately operated charter train assembled from genuine Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits stock, which is a different thing from a surviving railway service. James Sherwood of Sea Containers began buying withdrawn 1920s carriages in 1977 and spent some US$16 million on around thirty-five sleeping, restaurant and Pullman cars; the restored train made its inaugural London Victoria to Venice run on 25 May 1982. It runs on ordinary commercial paths over ordinary national networks. Its existence is the clearest evidence for this Journey's central point: the carriages, the crew and the timetable slot can all be recreated commercially, because the expensive and irreplaceable thing — the alignment through the Alps and the Balkans — was already there.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Orient Express
  5. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  6. James Sherwood
  7. Connections
  8. James Sherwood
  9. Orient Express
  10. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  11. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  12. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
  13. Istanbul
  14. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
  15. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
  16. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
  17. Paris
  18. The Balkans
  19. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
  20. Simplon Tunnel
  21. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
  22. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
  23. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
  24. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
  25. The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable
  26. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
  27. Evidence
  28. 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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