The through sleeping car

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1. Story
2. The commercial invention that made a multi-day railway journey saleable, and the reason a Belgian company could run a train across seven countries without owning a metre of track. Georges Nagelmackers, having seen Pullman's American night trains on a visit in 1867–68, built a business that supplied sleeping and dining cars and staff and attached them to national railways' scheduled trains under contract. The consequence is structural: the Orient Express was a set of carriages, not a railway, so it could be rerouted whenever politics or engineering demanded, could cross borders no single railway administration spanned, and could vanish in 2009 without any line being lifted.
3. Knowledge
4. The main-line steam locomotive
5. The through sleeping car
6. Connections
7. The main-line steam locomotive
8. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
9. Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
10. Liverpool and Manchester Railway
11. The Rainhill trials settle the question of traction
12. Trans-Siberian Railway
13. Ruling gradient
14. Coal
15. The through sleeping car
16. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
17. Evidence
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.
19. 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.