Simplon Tunnel

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1. Story
2. The 19.8 km Alpine base tunnel between Brig in Switzerland and Iselle in Italy, first bore built 1898–1905 and second 1912–1921, and the longest mountain tunnel in the world for most of the twentieth century. It is in this Journey because it is the piece of rock that decided a political problem: after 1918, with transit through Germany and Austria closed to the service, the Simplon gave the reconstituted Orient Express a southern path from Paris through Lausanne, Milan, Venice and Trieste to Belgrade and on to Istanbul. The train's post-war identity was named after a hole in a mountain, which is a fair summary of what actually constrains a long-distance railway.
3. Knowledge
4. Orient Express
5. Simplon Tunnel
6. Connections
7. Orient Express
8. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
9. Istanbul
10. Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
11. Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway)
12. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
13. Paris
14. The Balkans
15. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
16. Simplon Tunnel
17. The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
18. First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
19. The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
20. The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
21. The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable
22. Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
23. Evidence
24. Supports the 19 May 1977 last Paris–Istanbul departure from Gare de Lyon at 23:56, the 11 April 1919 first Simplon Orient Express, and the final Strasbourg–Vienna EuroNight of 12 December 2009 with the name leaving the timetable on 13 December. V55 verification basis: a specialist rather than institutional source; its substance was carried in attributed search results and the site itself is refused by this environment's egress proxy.